Even in the United States the powerful Christian right lobby doesn’t always get its own way. US government regulators recently authorised over-the-counter sales to adults of the ‘morning after’ contraceptive pill. Under-18s will still have to get a prescription, but something tells me that a girl who really needs this medication won’t have too much trouble getting hold of it. (Melbourne Age, 26 Aug. 2006)

Conservative Catholics and evangelicals in Australia kicked up a hell of a row when the morning after pill became easily available in Australia. Notice how the sun still rises in the mornings? Funny about that.

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