[leokeba]

How is not that a thing already ? Especially in California, isn't it supposed to be a "progressive state" ? As a french person, the US seems totally bonkers about everything related to pregnancies and sex in general.

[dragonwriter]

> How is not that a thing already? Especially in California, isn't it supposed to be a "progressive state" ?

It is and has been for a long time, but not everywhere in the state, hence the mandate.

Here's a news story about opposition to the existing program in the state's largest district having evaporated... in 1993.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-06-me-10392-...

[comte7092]

I don’t live in California so I don’t know, however, it likely already is the case in many schools in California, this bill is just a mandate.

When I was in school in another state, many moons ago, they had free condoms available.

[leokeba]

Oh right, thanks for giving a bit of nuance to this, here I was starting to see California as a horror-movie style orphanage from the 1800s.

[Kye]

Like all US states, California is a collection of dense progressive islands in a sea of sparsely populated and variously conservative space. Any progressive policy still has to get buy-in from moderates and conservatives.

[leokeba]

Indeed that's more or less what it looks like, thanks for the explanation though. Reading the article, what seems even more bonkers is the fact that pharmacies refuse to sell condoms to "underage kids", is that a legal thing or just very conservative using their (admittedly very broken) personal sense of moral duty to not comply ?