'Immaculate Contraception' Ad Withdrawn

Champ

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Wed Dec-08-04 11:57 AM
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'Immaculate Contraception' Ad Withdrawn

By Jackie Dent
LONDON (Reuters) - A Christmas campaign for an "immaculate contraception" morning-after birth control pill has been scrapped by a drug company in Britain after causing offence on religious grounds.

The poster, which appeared on London Underground trains, asked: "Immaculate contraception? If only."

"It might be Christmas time," it read, "but condoms still split and pills still get forgotten. So if your contraception lets you down, ask your pharmacist for Levonelle One Step."

Schering Health Care, a subsidiary of Schering AG of Germany, said in a statement it had decided to withdraw the "inappropriate" advert after receiving several letters.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=7028967

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Ellen Forradalom

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Wed Dec-08-04 12:02 PM
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1. Some people have no sense of humor

and need to get a life.

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