California bill would require all public high schools to hand out free condoms [latimes.com]

Mathew Portell 3/25/2312:00 PM

^{Frida Diaz, 21, a member of Planned Parenthood Generation Action, restocks a condom dispenser in a restroom in the Associated Students Union building at San Diego State’s campus in Calexico in May.(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)}

By Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, March 22, 2023

A high school student went to a pharmacy to purchase condoms but was turned away because of his age.

A student wanting to buy condoms to prevent sexually transmitted diseases was shamed at the store.

Another student couldn’t afford the contraceptives and became pregnant.

Teenagers shared these stories with Ria Babaria and Fiona Lu, California high school students who are co-policy directors for GENup, a youth-led social justice organization.

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Robert OlcottMember

I found myself remoniscing a discussion on the floor of the New Hampshire Statehouse - when a legislative bill was being discussed to change the age of 'Consent'. After 'substantial discussion' one legislator offered a 'resolution': "Keep the 'age of consent' at eighteen, and make it 'compulsory' ". That served to end the discussion (at that legislative session- about 48 years ago).

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