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20 May 2009, 09:49
.November.Butterfly.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frHOZn3tpdQ

take a look!!

"An NHS trust has defended its decision to release a web video of a schoolgirl giving birth that is so shocking it has been banned by YouTube. Skip related content

NHS Leicester said the footage of a schoolgirl having a baby on a playing field was designed to deliberately "shock" and "provoke" young people.

After the video was posted on a number of sites it was viewed by more than 70,000 people and attracted many complaints before being removed by YouTube.

The video is deliberately filmed to look like amateur mobile phone footage, although it ends with a slogan from the campaign to reduce the high rate of teenage pregnancy in the city.

Tim Rideout, chief executive of NHS Leicester City, told Sky News: "We know this film is hard-hitting, but so are the numbers of under-18s getting pregnant in Leicester.

"The city's Teenage Pregnancy and Parenthood Partnership has been successful in cutting the numbers of young girls getting pregnant.

"But to make a long-term difference we need more education on safe sex."

The Trust said the "happy slapping"-style video was made after teenagers in the city told them conventional health education campaigns made little difference to their attitudes.

Leicester has a higher-than-average teenage pregnancy rate, with one in 20 young girls falling pregnant.

Even though YouTube has supposedly removed the "viral" video, a version of it entitled "Teenage Kicks" is still available on the site, with the following explanation:

"Teenagers filming fights on their camera phones is as old as happy slapping, but this footage from a school in Leicester is pretty shocking by anyone's standards."

The posting has attracted many responses, not all of them complimentary. But some among them support the project.

"I think you lot are beginning to take this problem seriously," wrote one user.

Another said the footage "looks scary" but is "a good idea".

The trust claimed it decided to take the shock approach after the young people it asked said they wanted something memorable to get the message across.

While there is little doubt the video fulfils that objective, it is likely to be some time before we know whether the project will succeed in reducing pregnancy rates."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090520/tuk-nhs-defends-shocking-schoolgirl-birt-45dbed5.html
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20 May 2009, 23:12
Acid Fairy
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Isn't that just typical; a video of the most natural thing in the world is deemed as 'too shocking'.
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20 May 2009, 10:20
RealLifeComics
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Ive seen it, thot they could have thought of a better ad. Was really weird.
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