Spy now, 'EVERYBODY knows that once young women have sexual interthey lose all interest in academic studies'. This is the view of Victoria Gillick's husband in justifying his wife's campaign to prohibit contraceptive advice to statement, the issue is not really the under-16s in general, but an attempt to control and punish the sexual activity of young women in particular.
This implication has already been picked up of Waltham Forest education authority interpreted the ruling to mean that under-lo yea old women were no longer to be given sex education in school. No similar guidance was issued in relation to boys. The NUT in the area objected to this and the status quo has been reestablished pending further clarification. But we can be sure that Waltham Forest will not be the onl education authority to see the ruling this way.
Many youth clubs and youth groups have already been affected. Advice and educational groups on sexual matters for the under-los now have to vigourously curtailed discussion wanders onto the 'dangerous' area of contraception!
Drawing the line between legitimate discussion on the 'facts of life' and the, illegitimate discussion of contraception and abortion means an arbitrary halt to inquiries that naturally lead onto all aspects of conception and sexuality.
The impact of this ruling on young women will be devastating. Surveys
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young people under-16. As is clear from Mr Gillick's