Boston College has apparently decided that students will no longer be allowed to provide condoms in dormitories. According to the Boston Globe:
BC officials sent a letter to students on March 15 demanding an end to student-run Safe Sites, a network of dorm rooms and other locations where free contraceptives and safe-sex information are available.
The college says that if it discovers that Safe Sites continues to distribute condoms on campus “the matter would be referred to the student conduct office for disciplinary action by the university.”
Jack Dunn, a spokesman for BC, said in an e-mailed statement that the students know the public distribution of condoms violates the university’s policies and values.
“As a Jesuit, Catholic university, there are certain Catholic commitments that Boston ¬College is called to uphold,” Dunn wrote. “We ask our students to respect these commitments, particularly as they pertain to Catholic -social teaching on the sanctity of life.
This, of course, is true. The Catholic Church forbids contraception.
Then again, it also forbids premarital sex. This new condom distribution prohibition might be ethically consistent, but it still doesn’t make much sense from a student life perspective. Premarital sex is a sinful act anyway. Is it less sinful if condoms aren’t involved? [Image via]
