Family First cares about your vagina

Free morning-after pill advert under fire
A radio campaign for free handouts of the morning-after pill is giving teens an excuse for unprotected sex and putting them at risk of sexually transmitted infections, critics say.
Auckland District Health Board began a $300,000 trial in October offering the emergency contraceptive pill free at pharmacies in a bid to cut the teen pregnancy and abortion rate. In the first two months of the scheme, 1539 women got the pill. A similar scheme, for women under 25, has run in the Waikato for two years. Family First spokesman Bob McCoskrie said a radio advert for the pill in which a chance encounter on a beach leads to an unplanned sexual liaison and the need for the emergency contraceptive sent the wrong message to young listeners. "We shouldn't be telling teenagers that having unprotected sex is okay. This [pill] deals with unwanted pregnancy, but there's no mention of the danger of sexually transmitted infections."

Hmmm, let’s see we have one of the worst STI rates amongst teens in the OECD, one of the worst teen pregnancy rates in the OECD and one of the worst abortion rates in the OECD, while we also don’t have a compulsory sex education programme in schools. Note that Family Fist (they were the pro beating lobby group who didn’t want section 59 repealed because apparently God gave them the right to thrash their children) are pretending that they have some type of interest in women’s vaginas (for health purposes they assure us) when in reality they have a massive celibacy before marriage agenda. FPA should be congratulated for being so brave to run free campaigns like this as a proactive measure to help combat our pregnancy and abortion rates, to be criticised by a moralistic Christian group on ‘health grounds’ and concern that women may get infected from an STI when really Family Fist’s agenda is to let the woman die to save the precious little baby when it comes to the abortion debate shows how bankrupt they are on this issue. Family Fist should stick to trying to get the Courts to protect child beaters and leave women and the agencies that have a real concern for them to do as they choose.