Recently Abortion clinics are to be allowed to advertise on television and radio for the first time. Also adverts for contraception will be permitted to broadcast advertisements at any time of the day or night. At this moment in time these types of adverts have been banned from advertising before the 9pm water shed except on channel 4, where the cut off time is 7.30pm.
The watchdog claims it is responding to government calls for action to combat the rising teenage pregnancy. But its plans were furiously criticised by family campaigners and MPs; saying the television adverts for abortion clinics will only lead to more interest among young people.
Even though there are letting more adverts to been shown more frequently to keep getting the message of safe sex across, there are still restriction. one of them is advertisements for contraception will not be allowed to be shown during breaks in programmes designed for children under ten.
Extract from Daily Mail website: www.dailymail.co.uk