YES! I am an ardent supporter of having safer sex supplies available in high school (maybe not condom dispensers in the bathrooms, but with a counselor or in the nurse's office). Not every girl lives in an urban area, where she can go to PP/free clinics to get birth control without her parents' knowledge and/or consent, and her high school might be the one place she feels comfortable getting this sort of information.
If we (as a people or society) can do anything in our power to prevent the astronomical teen pregnancy rates, we should.
Another thing we must realize is that pregnancy is only one of the consequences of sexual activity. STDs are rampant, from diseases which are curable (but may cause infertility) to incurable diseases like herpes and HPV (which is often targeted as a cause of cervical cancer later on in life).
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the CDC's reporting of GRID, which later became HIV/AIDS. 22 million people have died, most because they did not practice safer sex. We cannot sit idly by and watch young people get sick and die, because we were too vain or self-righteous to make protection available.
It's nice to promote abstinence programs, but they really don't work. Most are (and I'm not saying anything is wrong with this) faith-based, and WILL NOT mention safer sex or alternatives to sexual intercourse. A survey of people who had signed abstinence pledges such as True Love Waits discovered that the pledgees (?) had not participated in sexual intercourse, but were doing "everything but" (including anal activity) without protection! I have a HUGE BEEF with these programs. In a previous thread, I discussed my issues with them...I think it's in the AKA forum.
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