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Private clinics that carry out abortions for profit are to get the go-ahead to promote their services with TV and radio adverts.
Advertising watchdogs will trigger a storm of controversy by announcing the decision on Monday after years of argument, the Mail can disclose.
Pro-life campaigners reacted with fury, saying the move would trivialise human life by putting the choice to have a termination on a par with buying washing-up liquid or cereal
butit was ok to advertise about AIDS, safe sex, etc...?
what do you think?
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Hi Eurostar
Hmm tricky one I think.
i think when I use to go on the London Underground the private clinics advertised there.
I think it is a shame from the kids point of view. Will 5 years olds be asking in innocense if thye can have one for there birthdya or will they screen it after 9.
Very delicate subject I think
FSx
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it hasnt been decided about the watershed thing yet...a very delicate subject i agree.. and i,m not sure myself...they will be promoting contraception as well...
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personally i dont agree with it at all... kiddies have a right to a childhood without knowing about abortion when they may not even know how babies are made... after 9 ? don't kids ever come downstairs after 9 ?
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I think they should do it - and for one main reason - to put the noses of these pro-life campaigners out of joint!
Jason.
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I think that relabelling the anti-abortionists as "Pro-life" smacks of 1984 Newspeak.
John
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We already have abortions on TV.
It's called Piers Morgan.
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In other times I may have not understood why we needed the advertisement but ever since a neighbour of mine went back on her decision because her Christian GP gave her a sermon on how immoral a decision that were (despite the fact that she already had 3 children - one of which under two - and twit for a partner beat her up when the mood took him and from whom she had to run from in many a middle of the night).
And I agree with John.
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I agree its a delicate subject and a contraversial one, I suspect any advertising will be well after the watershed, just as the ones for durex tingly lube and stuff are. Parents have always had to be quite adept at dodging questions that a child is to young to understand, its an essential part of being a parent.
I too find the re-naming of anti-abortionists as pro-lifers a bit strange and 1984ish, I'd like to see as much energy and money put into promoting and developing contraception by anti-abortionists. Not every unplanned pregnancy is due to stupidity or fecklesseness, many are genuine accidents and not all women can tolerate hormone type contraceptives, indeed if you can't then your options are seriously limited. Then theres all the medical reasons why one might need an abortion and some doctors, maybe like the one described above are so anti that they put the mothers life at risk as well as the babies. In these circumstances women definately need to know where they can go and not be lectured, especially now that family planing clinics are being shut down, they used to be places where a women could go for reproductive health care and not be judged.
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its a delicate subject ..but i see it as a good thing if the advertisement is done with compassion ..the brooke advisory advertise on the train station etc ..women should be able to have a choice imo and not judged but helped ..
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I don't agree with abortion but i don't see the point of advertising it. It doesn't take to braincells to rub together to know to go to a doctor and ask for help and advice. It's like advertising dentists for toothache but with the whole profit angle, it just makes it seem like bad taste and just mirrors this appalling money motivated society we live in.
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one of the reasons behind this advertising is letting women know where they can go for an abortion and not be judged...some doctors still have a very negative attitude to women who may want an abortion...and some women are then put off and bring into the world a very unwanted child,...sometimes,not always, with disastrous results...
oldskoolian.. i do tend to agree with your last sentence though
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I think it is terrible that companies are making money out of abortions. In my opinions abortions should be banned after 3 weeks of pregnancy because beyond that point the feotos starts to develop into a bady.
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skoolie, I think one of the above posts, shows just how difficult it can be to access medical help if your doctor dosent agree with terminations, and now that family planing clinics etc are being shut down there are fewer places where women can go for help. Most NHS trusts refer to private clinics for abortions and have done for years. I don't know anyone who actually wants an abortion as such, but that dosent stop there being unplanned and unwanted pregnancies or ones that can end up being dangerous to the mothers health.
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If someone has a doctor that is anti-abortion then simply change doctors. My point is, if someone wants an abortion and doesn't wanna see a doctor then they can google for contact numbers and the info they need without having to see the info on TV.
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skoolie i can agree with you but...changing doctors takes time.. surely the earlier its done the better for all?...private abortion costs...some havent the money
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Methinks a MEGA advertising campaign re contraception would be far more apt!
Polly
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we live in a world now where you can access ANY information on what is relevant to us,for what ever we need it for,I think it's time WE stopped paying for people to stop smoking/drinking,drugs etc,by governmen their IS as I said lots of ways to find out what you need to know out their.
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i think two drs consent is needed for a termination to take place ..the brooke advisory councels women also regarding unwanted pregnacies and family planning ..
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Skoolie,
Have you considered the state of mind of a woman who decides to seek an abortion?
I should imagine that for the vast majority it's a little bit more serious than deciding what colour shoes they should wear with what outfit. Not only would they have to consider the moral and ethical implications of what they were about to do, but also the social and medical implications also and, on top of all that, they would also have to take into consideration how an abortion would affect them for the rest of their lives.
That doesn't exactly give them a good mindset for battling with moralistic doctors and medical staff, or surfing the net like they would for a dress or a present.
Jason.
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Euro, Jase, we are not talking about who we should see but more how we should do it. Like i said, if NHS doctors are unreasonable then Google can give the relevant numbers and advice rather than having it plastered on Television. Like Polly said, money should be pumped into an advertising campaign regarding contraceptives. However, i know some of us can't do anything without taking advice from the telly. People like this shouldn't be allowed to have kids period.
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hey skoolie..i dont think this advert should happen, i,m just trying to give a different side to it though...
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My hackles are well and truly up with some of the male comments on this subject. What do you all know about unwanted pregnancy and how horrendous it is to have to make that decision? DO YA? GRRR. women are responsible for trying to organise contraception as we are the ones that are ultimately responsible for our bodies and babies. Contraception did not work for me and I chose to have my baby... but 22 years ago I had a choice. but for some women it would be better if the argument was not so slanted. Unwanted children are harder to deal with and cost a lot more money to the state than unwanted babies. Shame on you.
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