Condom Distrabution
...hat the idea that, “kids are going to do it anyway, you can’t stop them” is the wrong way to be thinking. He thinks distribution of condoms is a slippery slope leading to a scenario where we have disease- free hookers in the Safe Sex Centers. Limbaugh believes that distributing condoms in schools will only make kids want to have sex more. He claims that condom destitution will give a false assumption that condoms will protect from all STDs. Limbaugh ends his passage by stating that “The worst part of all this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS”, when the condom failure rate is 20 percent. In a column from the New York Times, appearing on January 8, 1994, Anna Quindlen gives her view on the condom distribution in schools in an article titled “A Pyrric Victory.” Quindlen starts her article by giving a hypothetical example of a young boy who is having a hard time urinating due to the fact that he might have a sexually transmitted disease. By playing on emotion, she proclaims that condoms should be distributed to the kids due to that fact that they are going to have sex no matter who tells them not to. Quindeln gives a statement from a doctor in New York who has to clean up the mess when sexually active kids don’t use condoms. She also gives examples of the “let me see if you are on the list” scenario which means when a child asks for a condom, the nurse must see if their parents have made it permissible. The most alarming statement that she gives is from a doctor who advocates condom distribution. He reveals that in 1992, his three high school clinics saw over 150 cases of sexually transmitted diseases, along with other children who were hospitalized for these reasons. Quindeln finishes her article by saying that “The Board of education could do a great good if it found ways to truly foster parent-child communication in all thin...