MORE than 80 per cent of UK health trusts have authorised pharmacists to supply the morning-after pill to underage girls, it was revealed today.
In some areas, including Leeds, health chiefs believe girls as young as 13 should be provided with the emergency contraceptive.The shocking revelations, published in a charity report today, also show that the majority of trusts would be prepared to insist that chemists dispense the drug to very young girls as a condition of being granted their licence.
Critics said the "misguided" policy was based on "sheer desperation" and "blind ideology" rather than any evidence that it prevented teenage pregnancy.
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