This was the problem that Massachusetts faced in Eisenstadt v. Baird. The Court ended up chucking a statute requiring drugs to be issued only by licensed professionals when it struck down the ban on issuing contraceptives to single individuals.
"This was the problem that Massachusetts faced in Eisenstadt v. Baird. The Court ended up chucking a statute requiring drugs to be issued only by licensed professionals when it struck down the ban on issuing contraceptives to single individuals."
Yup. I'm old enough to remember when all condom packages were marked, "For prevention of disease only." That was in California in the early 1960s. It was a holdover from the old anti-contraception days.
As a teenager, I couldn't buy them at all until I was 21 in California. If you needed condoms, you had to find a friend over 21 to buy them for you.
Did that stop the kids in my high school from having sex? It did not. We had a number of pregnancies in my class of 106 kids. How many, I can't be sure. Some went to "stay with their aunt." Others had abortions from the doctor in town everyone knew would take care of "late periods." Others got married while still in high school. Only a couple actually had babies while single.