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Drunken New Year one-night stands will bring record number of abortions

By COLIN FERNANDEZ and STEVE DOUGHTY - More by this author » Last updated at 09:31am on 31st December 2007

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Drunken one-night stands over New Year will bring a record number of abortions among teenagers.

A lethal mix of binge drinking and unprotected casual sex will also mean a sharp increase in sexually-transmitted diseases.

The warning from the Marie Stopes International organisation, which carries out around one in three UK abortions, comes as Ministers admit their £138million drive to reduce teenage pregnancies is failing.

A target of halving the rate by 2010 now looks well out of reach.

There are fears that some girls see a termination as just another form of contraception.

Abortion in Britain has already reached record levels, with more than 200,000 each year. Nearly one in five are on girls under 18.

Labour's liberal licensing laws, which made alcohol widely available into the early hours, are further fuelling casual sex.

The Marie Stopes group said it carried out 6,000 abortions last February, the peak month for young women who become pregnant over Christmas and New Year.

The figure was 13 per cent up on 2006, and a similar increase is expected this year.

Spokesman Steve Kerridge said: "When alcohol is involved inhibitions come down. It's not just unplanned pregnancies but rampant rates of sexually transmitted infections. It's very difficult to get that message out there.

"Many women tell us that they have used a condom, but mistakes happen, particularly when alcohol is involved."

Leading doctors said the organisation was right. Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians, said: "Binge drinking is a matter for both sexes but sadly it is the women that end up holding the baby - or having the abortion,"

"Binge drinking in young women is one of the biggest health risks. But the worst dangers are not long-term liver disease but accidents and sexual accidents including unwanted pregnancy, rape and sexually transmitted diseases."

"We need to get the message through that getting drunk isn't cool and it makes young women extremely vulnerable."

Victoria Gillick, a campaigner with the Life anti-abortion group said: "What's happening here is a massacre of the innocents. As a pregnancy counsellor you find a lot of people coming for pregnancy tests in late January and February.

"It's clearly Christmas spirits and alcohol taking away inhibitions."

The Marie Stopes group has launched a £15 "festive family planning" pack at its clinics containing a morning-after pill, two condoms, two "spikeys" - luminous plastic lids to stop drinks being spiked - and a sexual health guide.

The fresh admission of difficulties with the Government's Teenage Pregnancy Strategy came in a Health Department document which said "progress needs to accelerate".

The original aim was to halve the rate of under-18 pregnancies between 1998 and 2010.

Don't listen to your mother, and don't believe any of the Brady Bunch crap about how wonderful "blended families" are. The divorce rate for second marriages with children is sky-high.

Later on in their lives, your children will thank you for focusing on them, and providing a stable home that they can see as a sanctuary.

You are a great parent - keep doing what you're doing!

I'm from Chicago originally, and Mayor Richard Daley has pronounced Obama a "son of Illinois". A huge proportion of the state is looking forward to seeing him in the White House.

Oprah's endorsement of him has revealed what many of us know already - white liberal racism is alive and well in feminist America.

Hopefully this ugly victimology/bigotry will not get in the way of getting the most well-qualified candidate in the President's office. He's biracial, has ties to America and Africa and grew up a Christian in a populous Muslim country.

If there's anyone who has the background and insight to deal with problems in toady's globalized landscape - it's him!

2001 data - The adolescent suicide rate among youth ages 10-14 was 1.3/100,000 or 272 deaths among 20,910,440 children in this age group.

The gender ratio for this age group was 3:1 (males: females).

The teen suicide rate among youth aged 15-19 was 7.9/100,000 or 1,611 deaths among 20,271,312 teenagers in this age group.

The gender ratio for teenage group was 5:1 (males: females).

Source: http://www.familyfirstaid.org/suicide.html

The real question is why are so many boys killing themselves, and what can we do about it?

The president of the APA has already gone public regarding his antipathy towards men and males in general. Perhaps this misandric perspective is one reason why our young men continue to kill themselves in droves, while the "scientists" at APA continue to sit on their hands.

Excellent post, agree on all points, including the MRA comment. They are just as ridiculous as most feminists.

My daughters think that women should sign up for Selective Service, men should get paternity leave and there should be rebuttable, presumptive joint custody in the event of divorce where children are involved.

Pretty far away from positions that most feminists in America take.

My kids are for equality, something the feminist movement has completely lost sight of.