Schools Urged To Install Free Condom Machines

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Aug 9, 2010, 8:29:32 PM8/9/10

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Schools Urged To Install Free Condom Machines
Free condom machines would be planted in high schools across the nation as part of a plan to tackle sexually-transmitted diseases and reduce the abortion rate. Family Planning Victoria (FPV) is calling on the Federal Government to fund contraception in Australia as a way of encouraging safe sex and preventing unplanned pregnancies. FPV chair Sally Cockburn says having free condoms in high schools would be the perfect start. "For year 11 and 12 I think that having a free condom vending machine in their common room is a reasonable thing," she said. "I think it's time we all grew up and realised that we need to protect our young people, not shove this sort of stuff under the carpet. I would have loved this to have happened 10 years ago, 15 years ago, but it's not too late and I call on both political leaders to think about it very carefully and to support this." When asked whether the condoms would also be available to students in younger grades, Ms Cockburn said it was common knowledge that school children under the legal age were having sex. "I don't think there is a specific age we're going to put on this," she said.