FREE EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION (No. 2)

That this House notes the decision of the Welsh Assembly Government to make the morning-after pill available free from pharmacies across Wales; regrets that the Assembly has not taken into account the many international studies showing that widespread use of the morning-after pill does not effect rates of pregnancy or abortion, and instead encourages risky sexual behaviour among the young leading to the increased spread of sexually transmitted infections which are already running at epidemic rates in the UK and are the highest in Western Europe; and calls on the Assembly to keep a close check on the rates of pregnancy, abortion and sexually transmitted infections following the implementation of its scheme.