| The Ethics of School-Based Condom Availability Programs | ||
| Joseph E. Balog, SUNY, College at Brockport, Brockport, NY Symbiotic relationships among lifestyles and health, mortality and morality, and science and philosophy force health educators to assess and make judgments about what are scientifically sound and morally good health interventions and behaviors. This presentation argues that school-based condom availability programs are scientifically and ethically justified. Programs of this nature obligate and challenge health educators to develop moral positions that defend such controversial interventions. The author presents a principle-based approach of moral reasoning to assess the act, agents, and consequences of condom availability programs and contends that the principles of autonomy, justice, beneficence, and nonmaleficence justify such health interventions. | ||