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Should teenagers be given free condoms?

Should teenagers be given free condoms?

  • Of course! They need to have sex safely

    Votes: 47 50.5%
  • No, it only encourages them

    Votes: 23 24.7%
  • Other(Please elaborate)

    Votes: 23 24.7%

  • Total voters
    93
If they are too god damned stupid to not use one, or too ****ing lazy or cheap to go out and buy them..... then they deserve to deal with that ****.

Allow them to buy them in stores.
Encourage them to use them.
But if you think you are setting teens up for success by giving out free condoms in school based on the false premise that they won't go out and buy their own because they are too dumb........ thats just stupid.


And im not arguing this due to some sort of "OH NOES ITS GOING TO ENCOURAGE TEENS TO ****" aspect.


I find this idea an extension of the bull**** "coddling" of teens that keeps on and keeps on in America. Quit coddling teens and let them face reality, they earned it.

We have been giving free condoms to sailors in the US Navy for much longer than we have teenagers. Where is the outrage for that? At least with teens, there is the valid excuse that they might not be able to afford it and they certainly wouldn't be able to afford either a baby, an abortion, or treatment for an STD. Sailors on the other hand, can (in general) afford any of these things.
 
We have been giving free condoms to sailors in the US Navy for much longer than we have teenagers. Where is the outrage for that? At least with teens, there is the valid excuse that they might not be able to afford it and they certainly wouldn't be able to afford either a baby, an abortion, or treatment for an STD. Sailors on the other hand, can (in general) afford any of these things.

Sailors are provided any of those things already.
 
Sailors are provided any of those things already.

Yes, they are. But they are also provided free condoms to prevent things like unwanted pregnancies (particularly those that would make additional little Americans in other countries) and STDs, the same exact reasons that people want to provide free condoms to high school students (except for the international American babies thing). Both actions help to decrease the cost to the taxpayer, who would be paying for care of either.
 
Yes, they are. But they are also provided free condoms to prevent things like unwanted pregnancies (particularly those that would make additional little Americans in other countries) and STDs, the same exact reasons that people want to provide free condoms to high school students (except for the international American babies thing). Both actions help to decrease the cost to the taxpayer, who would be paying for care of either.

Why do you assume the taxpayer is paying for a teenagers unplanned pregnancy????

A servicemember... sure...

Not a random ass teenager.
 
Why should they be free? If you don't have the money to buy condoms, you don't have the money to raise a child.

... That's kind of the argument for why they should be free. 1 condom avoids 1 child 98% of the time.
 
Why do you assume the taxpayer is paying for a teenagers unplanned pregnancy????

A servicemember... sure...

Not a random ass teenager.

Because in many cases, they are. If not the taxpayers, then the teens' parents. But most of the time, it is the taxpayers through Medicaid and then afterward through assistance programs. The majority of teen moms go on assistance, especially if they stay in school. Many taxpayers would most likely prefer to just pass out condoms for free at school if that means less money for them.

TANF and the Status of Teen Mothers under Age 18

Almost 80% is a lot of assistance. If that can be cut done, even just a little by providing free condoms, then why shouldn't it be? Especially through programs like that being proposed in Chicago/Boston, where the school is setting up counseling required for the "free condoms", providing more knowledge/education about sex.

I personally feel that teenagers should all get sex education, with no out at all. But if there is an "out", a parent wanting their child out should be able to be overruled by a teen who wants the class, the knowledge.
 
Because in many cases, they are. If not the taxpayers, then the teens' parents. But most of the time, it is the taxpayers through Medicaid and then afterward through assistance programs. The majority of teen moms go on assistance, especially if they stay in school. Many taxpayers would most likely prefer to just pass out condoms for free at school if that means less money for them.

TANF and the Status of Teen Mothers under Age 18

Almost 80% is a lot of assistance. If that can be cut done, even just a little by providing free condoms, then why shouldn't it be? Especially through programs like that being proposed in Chicago/Boston, where the school is setting up counseling required for the "free condoms", providing more knowledge/education about sex.

I personally feel that teenagers should all get sex education, with no out at all. But if there is an "out", a parent wanting their child out should be able to be overruled by a teen who wants the class, the knowledge.
Sorry... just sounds like a whole bunch of coddling them to me.
 
Sorry... just sounds like a whole bunch of coddling them to me.

Then you are ignoring the facts for your own preconceived notions. It isn't "coddling". It is dealing with the situation in a much better way than expecting teens to not be teenagers. It is being realistic and using that reality to hopefully prevent some pregnancies and STIs, and save a little bit of money as well.
 
People who are against giving out condoms and safe sex advice to teenagers are completely in denial of reality.

People who wish to suppress this education and simultaneously ban abortion are sick in the head.

That's all.
 
People who are against giving out condoms and safe sex advice to teenagers are completely in denial of reality.

That's about as ridiculous as saying we ought to hand out free handguns to crazed murderers. After all, they're going to do it anyhow.
 
That's about as ridiculous as saying we ought to hand out free handguns to crazed murderers. After all, they're going to do it anyhow.

Yeah... handing out condoms is just like handing out guns. That has to be the stupidest thing I've heard.
 
The condoms should not be provided with tax dollars but if they are donated by some private org then that should be ok.
 
Yeah... handing out condoms is just like handing out guns. That has to be the stupidest thing I've heard.

The point, which you clearly missed, is just because you think they're going to do it anyhow doesn't mean that we, as a society, ought to condone it, nor should we pay for it. We ought to make it unacceptable and subject to shame. People ought to held accountable for their actions, regardless.

I'm sure that's something you just don't comprehend.
 
The point, which you clearly missed, is just because you think they're going to do it anyhow doesn't mean that we, as a society, ought to condone it, nor should we pay for it. We ought to make it unacceptable and subject to shame. People ought to held accountable for their actions, regardless.

I'm sure that's something you just don't comprehend.

This isn't logically going to happen. It is not realistic to believe that teens are going to not have sex just because you want to "shame" them. And unless you plan on preventing teens from ever being able to get condoms at all, then holding them "accountable for their actions" isn't going to happen any more than if they are given the condoms for free (particularly when it is being given with information about it and safer sex) rather than paying for them or being given them by their parents.
 
The point, which you clearly missed, is just because you think they're going to do it anyhow doesn't mean that we, as a society, ought to condone it, nor should we pay for it. We ought to make it unacceptable and subject to shame. People ought to held accountable for their actions, regardless.

I'm sure that's something you just don't comprehend.

lol... are you seriously trying to justify your gun analogy? Just stop already. You're only embarrassing yourself.

Considering that condoms reduce disease, unwanted pregnancy, and death, I would say that it's in everyone's best interest if they had this tool, even if they never plan to use it. How is keeping our children ignorant and stupid going to keep them safe? Even in staunch right-wing, pro-marriage, pro-shaming-of-women countries like Iran, condoms are available. So whatever la la land you're living in is not part of this planet.

Your argument about accountability has ZERO RELEVANCE to health policy. The medical profession does not make industry recommendations based on your selective moral outrage against sluts. It's made based on human realities. So just deal with it.
 
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