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A leading Swiss condom manufacturer marketing extra small condoms aimed at 12-year-old boys in Switzerland, has said that marketing the product in the UK would be a ‘top priority’ given our high teenage pregnancy rate.

A LIFE spokesperson says: ‘This is the blatant exploitation of children to make money. It’s mindboggling that family planning groups in Switzerland campaigned to have these condoms made.

Figures released today show that the government is likely to dramatically miss its target of halving the number of teenage pregnancy rates by 2010 and still has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Western Europe.

LIFE spokesperson Joanne Hill says: ‘Year on year, official figures keep showing the same thing – that the government’s strategy is failing and has wasted almost £300 million pounds of taxpayers’ money.