School Condom Programs That Increase Teen Pregnancy
By Brandon Showalter, CP Reporter
This article was first published at christianpost.com on June 21, 2016.
A new study shows that providing free condoms to teenagers worsens the problem it purports to solve. The finding is unsurprising given that the programs are “propaganda for the Sexual Revolution,” Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse says.
In an extensive working paper entitled “The Incidental Fertility Effects of School Condom Distribution Programs,” University of Notre Dame researchers Kasey Buckle and Daniel Hungerman chart the effectiveness of distributing condoms to young students in order to curb teen pregnancy and reduce rates of sexually transmitted diseases. Their results reveal that both teen pregnancy and STD rates increased with the presence of such condom distribution efforts.
As noted in a June 15 Vox article about the study, the push to make condoms more accessible in school districts was largely in response to the alarming AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s. Such a push appears to have backfired.