News Brief: Young girl prescribed pill
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Girls as young as 10 are being prescribed the contraceptive pill, researchers from the University of Aberdeen have found. Their study of 35,000 girls in Scotland found 23 aged under 13 had been given the pill by GPs or family planning clinics.
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