IN response to Jennifer Hough’s article in Monday’s edition regarding the reported activities of an independent centre referred to as a ‘rogue agency’, it should be emphasised that non-judgmental, trustworthy crisis pregnancy counselling is freely available in Ireland.

SOME women are still too ashamed to admit they are pregnant outside of a relationship and conceal the pregnancy right up to the birth in some cases.

Women who lose their virginity as young teenagers are 70% more likely to face a crisis pregnancy in adulthood, it emerged today.

DELAYING early teenage sexual activity forms a key part of the State’s latest strategy to reduce the number of crisis pregnancies.

THERE is incontrovertible evidence that work and career opportunities strongly influence the way women deal with crisis pregnancies, research reveals.

ONLY one in three women with a crisis pregnancy have attended counselling services, it emerged yesterday.

THE number of women giving Irish addresses at British abortion clinics has dropped for the sixth year in a row.

AS the Government body set up to address the issue, the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA) welcomes the judgement of Mr Justice Liam McKechnie where he unequivocally held that the most crucial aspect of the ‘D’ case was to establish what course of action was in the best interests of the welfare of the girl.

TWELVE years after RSE — Relationships and Sexuality Education — was introduced in Irish schools, parents will be dismayed to discover that many youngsters today are not being taught about sex at all.

More than 10% of schools fail to teach sex education to their pupils, according to a new study commissioned by the Department of Education and the Crisis Pregnancy Agency.

GUIDELINES for professionals working with sexually active young people must be developed and published together with any proposed legislation on the age of sexual consent, the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA) insisted yesterday.