A Maryland The bill to repeal the ban on contraception sales in automatic distributors of public schools has sparked an animated debate, certain legislators warning that this could lead to distributors of condoms in elementary and preschool.
“It makes no sense,” Maryland State del Maryland said on Wednesday. Kathy Szeliga.America’s reports“” You are discriminating against traditional families who do not want their 14 -year -old daughter going to a high school and that I walk in the corridor in front of a sexual relations distributor. “”
The Maryland delegates House has voted to advance legislation that would eliminate criminal sanctions for the sale of contraception, including condoms and birth control, through automatic distributors in public schools. Under the current law, offenders face a fine of $ 1,000.
Szeliga and other criticisms have led to changes to limit automatic distributors of condoms to secondary schools, but their efforts have failed.
“We have offered an amendment to the bill … to say just watch, just secondary schools,” said Szeliga, a republican. “But they rejected him.”
Supporters of the bill insist on the fact that legislation does not consist in requiring schools to install automatic distributors of condoms, but rather to suppress obsolete criminal sanctions.
Democratic Maryland State del. Nicole Williams defended the bill during a recent session of the General Assembly of the State.
“This does not dictate what school systems should and should not do,” said Williams. “It does not require anyone to do anything or to suggest doing something. It only removes a criminal sanction. Heaven will not fall if we adopt this bill.”
After the advancement of the bill, Szeliga posted on xFormerly Twitter, to express his indignation.
“MD legislators have officially lost their heads. Automatic distributors of condoms in schools – preschool schools to secondary schools? Yes, you read that right. Thanks to HB 380The bill on “condoms for children”, your child’s primary school could soon have a colorful condom machine in the corridor and colleges will be a single counter for contraception. What is the next step, hormone therapy for recess? It is the ideology of common sense. Parents, wakes up! “”
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Szeliga warned that this legislation could open the door to wider contraceptive access in schools.
“They play chess,” she said. “First of all, we delete the penalties so that we can also obtain the automatic distributor in high school and in other schools, then next year they will come back, and they will put contraceptive pills, plan B, condoms.”
High school students (istock)
Sex education policies in schools have been a political problem nationally. In ChicagoPublic schools were confronted with a counter coupling after being reported that they introduced lessons on sex education and gender identity from kindergarten and the first year.
Szeliga, a grandmother of two daughters, said that she feared that this bill could expose children to mature subjects too early.
“Put this in a daycare or nursery school,” she said. “I am a grandmother of two beautiful girls aged 10 and 7 and I cannot imagine them walking in the corridor and seeing a distributor of colorful condoms.”
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She also asked how parents would sail on such conversations at a young age.
“With condoms and other things, then have a conversation with a 7-year-old child,” she said. “You know,” Mom, what is a condom? What’s in this machine? “”
The bill is now moving to the state Senate for examination.
