{"id":10888,"date":"2017-07-24T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T15:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=10888"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:11:49","slug":"boots-morning-pill-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/boots-morning-pill-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Boots in Morning-After Pill row"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Boots<\/a>
Boots the Chemist – caved in to pressure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boots has come under attack from a leading abortionist angry at the Chemist’s pricing for the morning-after pill.<\/p>\n

According to the BBC<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) issued a press release on Friday 21st July 2017. \u00a0BPAS demanded\u00a0Boots and other pharmacies reduce the cost of what it euphemistically called ’emergency contraception’ Levonelle. \u00a0‘Levonelle’ is a brand name for\u00a0levonorgetsrel. \u00a0Bayer PLC market the drug in the UK<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

‘Incentivising inappropriate use’<\/h2>\n

Currently, the progestogen-based drug Levonelle costs \u00a328.25 in Boots. \u00a0The store sells a non-branded equivalent for \u00a326.75. \u00a0However,\u00a0Tesco have\u00a0the branded drug at \u00a313.50. \u00a0Meanwhile, Superdrug offer a generic version for 13.49. \u00a0Additionally, Superdrug charges \u00a327 for Levonelle and \u00a335 for something called EllaOne (qv).<\/p>\n

Clare Murphy, BPAS director of external affairs, said: ‘Most people believe women should be able to access emergency contraception from pharmacies at an affordable price.’ \u00a0We do not know what evidence she has for that statement.<\/p>\n

The chief pharmacist at Boots UK, Marc Donovan, said: ‘In our experience, the subject polarises public opinion and we receive frequent contact from individuals who voice their disapproval of the fact that [Boots] chooses to provide this service.<\/p>\n

‘We would not want to be accused of incentivising inappropriate use, and provoking complaints, by significantly reducing the price of this product.’<\/p>\n

He added that the chemist wanted to avoid the pill ‘being misused or overused’.<\/p>\n

‘Patronising and pathetic’<\/h2>\n

Labour MP Yvette Cooper chimed in on Twitter. \u00a0‘This is patronising and pathetic – keeping emergency contraception price too high cos you don’t trust women and are scared of critics.’<\/p>\n

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\"Yvette<\/a>
Yvette Cooper MP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The morning after pill is a powerful abortifacient. \u00a0Bayer say they think<\/a><\/strong> it stops ovaries releasing eggs. It might also prevent fertilisation by sperm. \u00a0But the Mayo Clinic say<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0some morning-after pills also prevent an embryonic human being implanting in the womb. While the BBC say the pill ‘can be taken in the days after unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy’, Bayer make clear Levonelle must be taken within twelve hours. \u00a0The Mayo Clinic add ‘recent evidence strongly suggests that levonorgestrel doesn’t keep a fertilized egg from implanting’. \u00a0They add: ‘ It’s not clear if the same is true for Ella.’<\/p>\n

We have been wondering why the UK’s biggest abortionist is cheer-leading for Bayer’s Levonelle. \u00a0After all, would not an over-the-counter potion reduce their own market? \u00a0But it seems Levonelle has only a small window of use. \u00a0Moreover, it does not always work. \u00a0A woman can take it according to instructions. \u00a0She can then discover she is pregnant despite that. \u00a0Additionally, her mind has fully taken against pregnancy. \u00a0Therefore Levonelle use may actually increase BPAS core business of surgically ripping babies to pieces. \u00a0the same may be true of other ’emergency contraceptives’. \u00a0Abortionists have said in the past that contraceptive use in general increases demand for abortions.<\/p>\n

Around the United Kingdom<\/h2>\n
\"BPAS;<\/a>
BPAS; always chasing new market opportunities. ‘Caring for women since 1968?’ Doing abortions, that means.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In England, Levonelle and EllaOne are free of charge from most sexual health clinics. \u00a0Moreover, many GP surgeries and most NHS walk-in centres give them out free. The BBC added ‘The drugs are free only to women in certain age groups from pharmacies in some parts of the country.’ \u00a0Note ‘certain age groups’. \u00a0What they meant is some pharmacies and school nurses give it out free to teenagers behind their parents’ backs.<\/p>\n

In 2002, supermarkets Sainsbury’s and Tesco gave out the hormonal drug free to teens<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0The move was part of a Government scheme. \u00a0Christian Voice led a campaign with SPUC which put the brakes on Sainsbury’s involvement. \u00a0Tesco proved more obdurate.<\/p>\n

In Scotland and Wales, the pill is available free of charge on the NHS from pharmacies, GPs and sexual health clinics. \u00a0In Northern Ireland, some pharmacies allow it to be bought on the NHS, \u00a0Sexual health clinics and GPs in the Province make it available free of charge.<\/p>\n

\"Laura<\/a>
Laura Perrins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boots caves in to pressure<\/h2>\n

By Monday morning, Boots had caved in. \u00a0The firm was ‘truly sorry’ for its response and its ‘poor choice of words’. \u00a0It would look for cheaper alternatives to Levonelle, perhaps not quite what BPAS had in mind.<\/p>\n

Now, the BBC reported\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>Laura Perrins from the blog Conservative Women. \u00a0Mrs Perrins said condemning a pharmacy for setting a price on a particular drug was itself a ‘form of moralising’.<\/p>\n

She said Boots should not be forced to reduce the cost, saying Levonelle ‘is a drug that is unlike others and is a drug that can be given to under-age girls without parental consent’.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0Sandra Gidley, from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said the original stance taken by Boots was a ‘little uncomfortable’.<\/p>\n

She said: ‘They seemed to be saying women would be irresponsible.’ \u00a0‘That can’t be the case because pharmacists have to ask a set number of questions. \u00a0So if women are regularly trying to use the morning after pill as a method of contraception they’re simply not allowed to have it.’<\/p>\n

Magaluf Mentality<\/h2>\n
\"Majorca's<\/a>
Majorca’s Magaluf has become a byword for debauchery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking on LBC, this author said a couple should not be engaging in conjugal relations if they were not open to the possibility of conception.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, we take a medicine because there is something wrong with us. \u00a0We have a ‘dis-ease’. \u00a0So what ails a woman taking the morning-after-pill? \u00a0Has fertility – or new life – now become an ailment? \u00a0Levonelle and its competitors are not medicines, they are poisons.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the availability of such potions helps bring about a ‘Magaluf Mentality’, after the depraved antics at the Spanish island resort<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Intiimacy becomes recreational.<\/p>\n

Thanks to our divorce culture, we now have a crisis of young people deprived of (mainly) a father’s love. \u00a0They are desperately seeking someone to love them. \u00a0When this affects girls, they are prey to any young man who takes an interest in them. \u00a0The absence of fathers in a boy’s life decreases morality and accountability. \u00a0Add in Levonelle and the rest of the morning-after-pill drawer and you have a perfect storm for debauchery.<\/p>\n

And a nice source of turnover for the British Pregnancy Advisory Service.<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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