California governor Newsom vetoes bill to make free condoms available for high school students, citing cost

What is up with Newsome vetoing all this shit suddenly?

If you think fronting the cost of condoms for teenagers is expensive, wait till you see how much it costs the state to provide services for a single teen mother

We had condoms in our school washrooms in the late 90s in Canada. Pads in the ladies room as well. At a broke ass public school that had out of date text books.

America really is a weird fucked up religiously warped place.

You know what's so much more expensive? Teenagers having babies. That shit is expensive for everyone. Having a child's life ruined and forced to raise a child into another ill prepared adult. Costs society lots of money.

Just FYI: most family planning centers, like Planned Parenthood, hospitals and birthing clinics already give out free condoms to anyone who asks. That's where I was getting mine when I was a teenager.

We need a left leaning non-capitalist party in this country. Two capitalist parties are the problem, and neither can ever be the solution.

Condoms are a hell of a lot cheaper than children

As much as I'm certain this is not the case I still can't help but be self amused with the mental image of an exasperated Gavin Newsom coming out of an extensive review of data on just how much Californian highschool students do be going at it, and immediately declaring "nope, can't afford to rubber all that."

"We want progressives!"

"You have progressives at home."

The progressive at home:

Judging from a number of posts here, does that guy have "Veto Week" or what?

I mean I do agree with the fact that the bill doesn't provide funding for the condoms just that the schools need to provide it. That sounds pretty dumb to me.

To be fair…. If there were free condoms at my school, they would just be used for water balloons and pranks

Because babies and STDs are free.

How many of those kids will end up in foster care? How many will put their parents onto welfare rolel? How many will we need to send to college?

It's hard to tell kids that condoms are cheaper than kids when the government won't do the same.

Wait until he hears how expensive welfare is for single teen moms.

Didn't Colorado do this and teen pregnancy rates nosedived?

Edit: I couldn't find any news of Colorado doing this. Apologize for the misinformation.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Gavin Newsom rejected a bill on Sunday that would have made free condoms available all public high school students, arguing it was too expensive for a state with a budget deficit of more than $30 billion.

The bill is one of hundreds passed by California’s Democratic-dominated state Legislature before lawmakers adjourned last month.

Newsom has been signing and vetoing legislation since then, including rejecting bills on Saturday to ban caste-based discrimination, limit the price of insulin and decriminalize possession and use of some hallucinogens.

State Sen. Caroline Menjivar, a Democrat from Los Angeles and the author of the bill, had argued the bill would have helped “youth who decide to become sexually active to protect themselves and their partners from (sexually transmitted infections), while also removing barriers that potentially shame them and lead to unsafe sex.”

Newsom said programs increasing access to condoms are “important to supporting improved adolescent sexual health.” But he said this bill was one of several measures lawmakers passed this year that, when added together, would add $19 billion in costs to the state budget.

“With our state facing continuing economic risk and revenue uncertainty, it is important to remain disciplined when considering bills with significant fiscal implications, such as this measure,” Newsom said.

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Fuck you, buddy. This isn't the get-out-of-jail-free card that you think it is. Let's have more teen mothers with unwanted babies and see how that turns out. /s

Maybe California's strict emissions requirements include nocturnal emissions.

I want to know what he is a approving

Just par for the course at this point with Newsom. Still disappointing!

Why is he suddenly vetoing all these bills at once?

Poor students can't even afford a condom

Since when is this the taxpayers problem? The government has no business holding peoples hands through life. They can buy their own