The row has broken out as new figures from the Office for National Statistics revealed more 13- to 15-year-old girls in England and Wales are becoming pregnant.
Ironically, from 2001 to 2003 London had the highest pregnancy rate for this age group of all England's government regions, at 10 per 1,000.
The southeast London rate of 13.6 per 1,000 was the highest in England and was only topped by Blaenau Gwent in Wales, where 14.5 per 1,000 under-16s became pregnant.
Dr Eileen Munro, reader in social policy at the London School of Economics, condemned the protocol as "completely histrionic", while Jan Barlow, chief executive of sexual health charity Brook, said it "goes against everything we believe in".
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