According to the UK press, the foggy isle is being overrun by 11 year old tramps.
Dr. Petra Boynton has the definitive take down of this clap-trap on her blog.
The UK appears afflicted by ‘soaring’ numbers of sexually active girls, who lie to parents, enabled by GPs.
Is it accurate?
No.
I’m just here to vent my moral outrage as a parent. So, we shall keep the explanation short and sweet. The birth control types in question are essentially doses of hormones. Pharmaceutical alteration of hormone levels can do a lot of interesting things, like altering fertility as well as treating a number of potentially debilitating conditions that can occur in 11 year old girls.
In most cases, these girls are taking birth control not because they are sexually active, but because they have medical conditions for which birth control (i.e., hormone therapy) is a safe and effective treatment. But, that does not sell papers.
The press seems to think that long distance, anonymous slut shaming of defenseless, sick kids will not only sell papers but is quality, hard-hitting journalism. I may not know quality, but I know hard-hitting. This is not it. This is cowardly sensationalism.
Relative to providing support for ostracizing these girls from their elitist bastions, it might be more ethical for these journalists to go to the pediatric wing of a hospital, randomly point at some sick kids, and yell “WHORE!” How is this more ethical? Well, first, they would be doing it face to face, as opposed to the protective distance provided by print, and, second, because they would have to risk getting smacked upside the old brain box by one or more of Queen Elizabeth II’s loyal subjects. And recall, I said this might be more ethical, putting British journalism you are at least one rung down the moral ladder from a guy who makes fun of sick kids in a hospital.
And we’re supposed to be upset by the death of print journalism?
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