Some experts feel that our public schools should step in, and provide sexually active students with contraceptives, or condoms, which would aid in the fight against growing rates of teen pregnancies, and prevent the spread of STD's, such as AID's and Herpes. This feeling, however, is wrong. Distribution of condoms should not become the responsibility of the public school system. Not only would this new measure overstep the boundaries of a school's duties, but it also would step on the toes of those parents teaching their children to abstain from sexual activity a

t such a young age. Cal Thomas of the Times Union says that, " unprotected sex isn't the problem. Premarital sex is." If schools are given the right to distribute condoms, parents who hold a similar view to Thomas may find the school's new actions inappropriate, and strongly unwelcome.

These statistics prove that the way to reduce teen pregnancy, and the spread of STD's is the teaching of abstinence to young people. Distributing condoms in school will not only take away a parents right to tell their children not to engage in sexual activity, but will also put pressure on students, if not encourage them to participate in sexual activities at a younger age, increasing the very problem which the distribution of condoms was meant to reduce.

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