Debate: Should condoms be made available in high schools?
Side: yes

Yes. If your good enough to steal it, its yours. What is property anyway? Something that someone spent their own money for. As it is not particularly pertinent to the discussion, I am not going to spend time further addressing the idiocy of trying to rationalize a victimizing crime. I never claimed to be a revolutionary because abstinence is not a revolutionary idea, but that does not take away from the merit of my argument. Would society be better if teenagers practiced abstinence? I think it would, can't have a baby if you don't have sex. But as i said, I would be naive to believe that ignoramuses would be open to the ideaThere are countless things that would make society better. Not all of them are possible. Expecting all teenagers to remain completely abstinent is among these things. You are correct. But condoms do break, so what do you do then? Abortion perhaps? But there is much controversy about that as well. There are also a lot of crazy females who seek to sort of "trap" their partner into commitments by breaking the condom before its used. When used properly, the likelihood of condoms breaking is minimal. As I am a proponent of bodily autonomy, I do not see a problem with abortion.I cannot find statistics on the frequency of this trap scenario and it seems like something that the media would love to sensationalize even though the cases may be few and far between. Regardless, more men carrying and using their own condoms would help take care of this. Actually, my issue is peoples money being used for things they dont support. Yes, high school girls getting pregnant is a problem. So therefore we should use public schools to solve the problem? How ridiculous. It's one thing to use peoples money to fund the government to protect the rights of people, its another to use it for things that there is a clear divide on. This is a legitimate point but something that is an issue of public health, like safe sex, is something the government cannot fund only on a voluntary basis. Some people are against vaccinations, should public funding be cut from the effort to provide vaccinations to the poor? Others are against feeding the homeless, should we shut down government-run shelters? In fact, I can think of few things the government funds that do not have at least a small demographic that opposes it. Less STDs and less unwanted pregnancies in a society is good for the society as a whole. because they can barely afford decent textbooks or teachers for that matter, or provide a quality education. If that doesn't shed any light, I don't know what to tell youI never said anything about stretching the current budget to also include this. Money currently wasted on ineffectual abstinence only education could be put to far better use here, perhaps.And how do you know it would help? Have you done extensive research on the subject? Schools arent even capable of educating our children properly, but yet you want them to give them a "comprehensive sex education"? What does that entail exactly? Will they be teaching them positions as well? I'm not sure what you think comprehensive sex education is, but it generally involves an outline of all the ways to prevent unwanted results, and the various effectiveness rates of each method. Honest information about abstinence is included, but so are other options. Comprehensive sex education has been shown to be effective in helping students delay intercourse, reduce number of partners, and cut rates of diseases and pregnancies.http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/topics-issues/sex-education?task=view http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170361.php So basically what I'm gathering here is that you believe that the schools should provide condoms to teenagers because it would provide a safety net.Yes. Parents may strenuously advocate abstinence to their children, but if they choose to have sex anyway (and many of them do), the price could be a large one, both for them, and for the public.  Well, let's say schools do end up providing condoms for their students. Who is actually going to use them?The students. Of course. The reason they don't is just as I already pointed out, they're uncomfortable. Everyone I know doesn't use them for that reason, hell I don't use them for that reason.This is foolishness. Condoms are a very common method of birth control.