Just as a point to that. The Dept of Health and Public Health England (speaking purely UK here, and this also applies to the rest of The UK) does have a policy in line with what Steve says.

However, unlike people in spheres of influence such as those setting the policies of faith schools, NHS people cannot be judgmental. As I type, the sexual health services of the CCG for Buckinghamshire is facing a judicial review of its freely available contraception service by a consortium of religious interests. To date, as you cannot ignore the action, that's over £300K in legal fees. Money that has to be taken from front line services. The real costs haven't even started yet. If it goes to court, the actual consortium rather cleverly does not have any assets (it's costs to date are paid for by voluntary donations and is constituted to not make those controlling it liable) so once this nonsense is halted in court, the CCG (patients, tax payer, call it what you will) will not be able to recover the costs.


Nice.