'Pregnancy advisory services - including abortion information - could be advertised on TV and radio under proposals due to be released.Restrictions on condom adverts could also be relaxed, as part of plans aimed at reducing high UK rates of teenage pregnancy and sexual infections. '
Fantastic! Let's hope this doesn't get too much backlash from ignorant people moaning about the decline of Britain's moral standard. Already Conservative party members are bewailing how this represents just that. I found two articles on the same subject before the BBC one, and the BBC frames it in the most liberal light. Both Yahoo news and Sky news contain a quote from Conservative party anti-choice wingnut Nadine Dorres who is convinced the ads will show women happily skipping to abortion clinics instead of simply telling young women they have a choice.
About the condom ads, I'm not sure if they mean adverts for a particular brand, or more of the 'cautionary tales' campaign ads they show to convince young people to use protection. Either way, more of them can only be a good thing.
Should be interesting to see how these ads turn out.
P.S. Out of interest, as I mentioned, here in the UK there are cautionary ads on contraception, depicting young people having sex without a condom and getting infections or getting pregnant, with a tagline like 'always use a condom'. Do these sorts of ads air in the US?
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I don't see too many ads, but I only recall one condom ad.....and it was in Playboy. Great ad, showing a guy and a girl in a bar, with the tag line being a nice double entrende "The hard part is up to you."
Oh, and there was some ad encouraging condom use 'cause men are pigs, I think on TV as well as other media. I was not impressed, but I'm sure plenty of ladies loved it!
Anyway, we are in America. We have faith based disease and prevention control. We don't need no condoms! We have Jesus to protect us from STD's....
Condoms? You mean you don't wave a crucifix over you and your partner's genitalia to prevent diseases in Britain?
Anyway, no, I never see ads like those, but I am living in the DEEP south in a very Catholic area for grad school right now. The nearest planned parenthood is an hour away (and I live in a largish city) and it doesn't offer abortions. It would be easier (and less travel time) for me to cross state lines for an abortion.
I haven't even seen a late night Trojan ad since moving here.
you can find the - existing - NHS (National Health Service - UK) tv ad here
I think it's brilliant - more of this on TV I can deal with :-)
How about this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKG15lAif28&feature=related I LOVE how the couple are shown to have enjoyed a good night together after having used protection. There is no abstinence-only garbage here.
hah - yea it's great isn't it :-) it's almost enough to get you digging out your union-jack mini-dress from the 90's...... almost.... ;-)
give me what you got~
I quite like our NHS adverts.
Especially the one thats like "oh these two people are cool awesome yay,cept one has an STD."
It's like saying, no matter how awesome someone seems. They might have an STD. Always be safe.
I prefere the first part of the "HEY DAZ advert"
Also, theres some STD NHS adverts in NUTS magazines, and those kind of blokes mags. (My bro gets them. :/ I noticed the "Clamidia" clothes tag version in thar)
I completely disagree with abortion, this method is very unfair and should pay with jail and I want to know more about Generic Viagra because I need to take it if I want to have sex.