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Safety Of Third Generation Contraceptive Pills

EDM number 578 in 1998-99, proposed by Jenny Tonge on 21/04/1999.

That this House welcomes the recent decision by the Committee on Safety of Medicines to restore the third generation contraceptive pills to a first line therapy option; regrets the confusion caused by the 1995 judgement which affected 1.5 million women and reversed the falling trend in abortions and unwanted pregnancies; recognises that the risk of venous thromboembolism associated with the use of all contraceptive pills is extremely small and less than half that seen in pregnancy; urges the Government to make a statement on the measures they will take to inform health professionals and the public that for the vast majority of women the Pill remains a very safe and effective option to counter teenage pregnancy; further notes that the United Kingdom teenage pregnancy rate is the highest in the European union; and calls upon the Government to take action to reverse this trend.

This motion has been signed by a total of 29 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jenny Tonge21/04/1999Richmond ParkLiberal DemocratProposed
Julie Morgan21/04/1999Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Teresa Gorman21/04/1999BillericayConservativeSigned
John McDonnell22/04/1999Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Jane Griffiths23/04/1999Reading EastLabourSigned
Ashok Kumar26/04/1999Middlesbrough South & East ClevelandLabourSigned
John Austin26/04/1999Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Harry Barnes26/04/1999North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley26/04/1999Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Lynne Jones27/04/1999Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Laura Moffatt27/04/1999CrawleyLabourSigned
Eric Clarke28/04/1999MidlothianLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell28/04/1999Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Alice Mahon28/04/1999HalifaxLabourSigned
Evan Harris28/04/1999Oxford West & AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Joan Ruddock29/04/1999Lewisham, DeptfordLabourSigned
Phyllis Starkey29/04/1999Milton Keynes South WestLabourSigned
John Cryer29/04/1999HornchurchLabourSigned
Martyn Jones04/05/1999Clwyd SouthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer04/05/1999KeighleyLabourSigned
Alan Simpson05/05/1999Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Ken Livingstone05/05/1999Brent EastLabourSigned
Bill Etherington05/05/1999Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Diane Abbott10/05/1999Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Donald Gorrie17/05/1999Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis19/05/1999Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Nick Harvey20/05/1999North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Doug Naysmith20/05/1999Bristol North WestLabour Co-operativeSigned
Graham StringerUnknownWithdrawn

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