MA makes condoms available in High School.

[Antonio the Sixth]

What Lief and Dibble said.

[Antonio the Sixth]

You guys do realize, without an opt-out provision, this thing never sees the light of day, right?

In Massachusetts? Sure, socons will protest, but who cares?

[Antonio the Sixth]

But I am morally opposed to the fact that the simplest things like condoms are now being handed out for free.

This sounds like a judgment handed down on the assumption that condoms encourage people to have sex, rather than reduce the societal cost of it.

No, I have no problems with sex, being a teenaged male of course . My problem is the fact that the condoms are free. I can pay for my own condoms, and so can everyone else.

Condoms take up a smaller part of your discretionary income than they might someone else.

Condoms take up none of my income. But mentioning my non-existant sex life does not discredit my arguments.

I honestly didn't mean to imply that. The whole point I was trying to get to was that condoms might take up more of x person's discretionary income, and that's why I was arguing that they should be free of charge. My apologies.

Looking at Walgreen's website, you can get rubbers for under $0.50 per bang. It's incredibly cheap, so why on earth should the state provide it? Do you also want the state to provide cigarettes for post-coitus smoking?

False analogy is false.

Also, many of the people affected by this measure (high school students, remember) may have  little to no discretionary income at all.