Your sense of entitlement is all very well but it would be irrational for the council to fund a failing service, one which may even adversely impact unplanned pregnancy and STI rates just because *you* feel resentful.
If we are to take you at your word and assume you find the notion of pregnancy unthinkable we can also assume that you will take all reasonable steps to avoid such a state, including visiting your GP, buying cheap condoms online or forking out for a bus fare, which can’t be more than £1 either way to the nearest birth control centre.
If all else fails, I’m sure Antonia will stand you the money to get there. Or you could call up one of the many birth-control/abortion groups (ask them to reverse the charges, they’re drowning in money and won’t notice the difference) and they’ll happily tell you how to avoid a pregnancy.

Given the failure of the teenage pregnancy strategy in Oxford, your complaints about the closure of two evening sessions of the Alec Turnbull clinic don’t make sense.

Clearly, funding contraceptive outlets hasn’t resulted in any decrease in teenage conceptions in Oxford, in fact they have INCREASED. The policy seems to have been *counterproductive*. It is therefore reasonable, not to say sensible for the local authority to stop subsidising a service which doesn’t just not work but may be counterproductive.

Your fiscal judgement must be called into question if you are seriously arguing for taxpayers money to be used to fund demonstratively failing services.

Teenage pregnancy is a serious matter, Antonia and it behoves you to treat it accordingly, not as an abstract political football to kick around as it suits your ideological interests.

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