"NOTHING will stop promiscuity among teenage girls". Heather Causnett's statement (March 21) is damning in the extreme. Many girls have a much higher regard for themselves, and the store which sell these morning-after pills should have more regard for the health of these girls.

Many people would love to adopt one of these 'tragic mites' as she calls them and surely economics is not a reason for the destruction of potential human life.

Hilda Carney,

Oakland Avenue, York.

...THE oracles have spoken again and it seems there is still much for this grandma to learn. I have not been one to go in for unplanned pregnancies or the criticism of gay people. Neither have I (so far) appeared before the beak. Yet the patronising, judgmental letters from Heather Causnett and Ella Hirst with their sweeping generalisations nearly always remind me of the sting of slapped wrists at primary school.

At my next school caning was an outlawed practice, but these two bossy Evening Press correspondents evoke memories of the familiar territory of the head teacher's carpet.

Margaret Lawson,

Aldborough House,

The Groves, York.

Updated: 10:53 Wednesday, March 27, 2002