The variety of underage youngsters being prescribed the contraceptive pill has elevated 50 per cent in a decade, a new study reveals.
Figure reveal one in twenty women below the age of consent are currently being prescribed the Pill by their GPs, the Mail On Sunday has revealed.
The review has been conducted by researchers at King’s School London using official GP prescribing information.
It showed the amount of ladies aged twelve to 15 becoming prescribed the Pill rose from three.three per cent in 2002, to 5.two per cent in 2011.
The figure has grown from 50,000 women to 75,000, the paper reports.
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Dr Asia Rashed, of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science at King’s University London, who led the research, informed the paper: “I was amazed by the figure. Five per cent is higher.”
Including: “Governments want to prevent undesirable pregnancies – and below 16s are sexually active.”
Last month the Telegraph unveiled a lot more than 33,000 women below the age of consent have been given contraceptive implants and injections on the NHS in excess of the previous 4 many years.
Official figures obtained by the Telegraph display the extent to which NHS sexual overall health clinics are giving “long-acting” contraceptives to ladies aged 15 and below – even though under-age sex is unlawful. The implants and injections are provided with no the require for parental consent.
The figures, compiled by the Government’s Well being & Social Care Details Centre (HSCIC), demonstrate that 5,400 women under sixteen have been offered the contraceptive implant in the yr ending March 31 2014. Of individuals, 1,800 had been aged 14 or beneath.
In the very same period, three,000 teenage girls aged 15 and below received a hormonal injection to avert pregnancies. Of people, 800 had been just 14 and below.
In complete, more than the past 4 many years, the NHS dispensed contraceptive implants to 21,700 girls who are legally as well younger to have sex, while a additional twelve,a hundred girls below sixteen had been provided injections – a complete of more than 33,000.
A single in twenty underage youngsters on the Pill
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