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French government decides to let
teen girls use morning-after pill
PARIS (AP) — The French government’s decision
to make the morning-after pill available to teen-age
girls at schools has unleashed a fierce debate in this
predominantly Roman Catholic nation.
Parents and health officials are divided over
whether the action will usher in a dangerously
nonchalant attitude toward unprotected sex or pro
vide teen-agers with the support some contend is
missing at home.
Deputy Education Minister Segolene Royal, a So
cialist, said teen-age pregnancies were not just a
family matter but a public health problem that af
fects 10,000 girls under 18 each year.
“I want to respond to this distress, to this ur
gency, by asking adolescents to go though a school
nurse” should they fear an unwanted pregnancy.
Royal said in announcing the action over the
weekend.
Once the measure takes effect, in a few weeks,
the morning-after pill, NorLevo, will be available
through school nurses. The treatment consists of
two pills, one taken within 72 hours after sexual
intercourse and the second 12 to 24 hours later.
They work by preventing the implantation of a
fertilized egg in the uterus — which opponents
contend amounts to abortion by blocking devel
opment of a viable embryo.
In the United States, two forms of morning-after
pills are available. But while teens can get them at
most health or family planning clinics, they need a
prescription and, depending on the state, sometimes
also must obtain parental permission.
Any attempt to distribute them in schools would
most certainly face strong opposition.
The NorLevo pill has been available without pre
scription in France since June, but supporters of dis
tributing it in schools argue that young girls may be
loath to ask for it in drugstores.
Some French teen-agers welcomed the decision to
distribute the pills at schools, saying it bypasses the
home and the moral debate surrounding the issue.
“You can’t talk to some parents about these things.
Going to the school nurse will be like talking to some
one anonymous,” Charlotte Reibell, a 15-year-old stu
dent at the Lycee Carnot in western Paris, said.
“Fm not advising young girls to go out and have
sex and then take the pill,” Laure Sauvagnargues,
a 19-year-old university student, said. “But if they
are going to make a mistake, then it’s better that
they can fix it.”
Bitter pill to
swallow
The decision to make
the morning-after-pill
available to girls at school in
France has been welcomed by
some and enraged others.
Of the teenage girls who have
had sexual relations, 3.3 %
have became pregnant. Their
outcomes:
Had Gave
abortions birth
72% • • 12%
Had a
miscarriage
16%
FRENCH GOVERNMENT
^9o l {Komote contraceptive
pills, which is their preferred
mode of birth control.
► To promote emergency
contraception instead of
abortion.
► To promote the use of
condoms to avoid unwanted
pregnancies and sexually-
transmitted diseases.
►To enlarge the scope of sex-
education in schools.
► To launch a government
campaign on contraception in
the next few months.
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GOLCUK, TUrkey (AP) — Naime Al-
tin is pregnant, has three children and
has been homeless since August, when
her landlord evicted her after an earth
quake left her husband unemployed and
unable to pay the rent.
Altin has applied for one of the 26,000
prefabricated homes that the govern
ment said yesterday are ready to be
handed over to survivors of a calamitous
Aug. 17 earthquake that struck western
Tli r key.
But she has little chance of getting
one anytime soon.
“My home wasn’t seriously damaged
in the quake,” Altin, washing her chil
dren’s clothes in a plastic basin outside
her muddy tent on a hill overlooking
Golcuk, said. “Prefabricated homes are
for those with serious damage.”
The August quake killed more than
17,000 people and left at least 100,000
people homeless. Officials in this naval
town on the sea of Marmara said 1,086
families whose homes collapsed or were
seriously damaged here will be assigned
temporary homes today.
But thousands like Altin who were
evicted or who are too scared to return
to homes that were shaken by
will be left without prope
dreading the cold and sno«|
months to come.
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will again turn into death
strengthened after another qu,
western Turkey on Nov. 12,
least 784 people and forcing
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