The barrier isn't the financial cost. It's the social stigma. You have to walk up to that machine, where others can see you, and purchase it. People talk, mayb

The barrier isn't the financial cost. It's the social stigma. You have to walk up to that machine, where others can see you, and purchase it. People talk, maybe your parents find out, etc. I grew up in a super conservative area- the only way I bought condoms was by being the clerk at the gas station and buying it when literally no one was around. Because that was the only way. But if everyone gets handed them handed out for free, well, there's no stigma because everyone has them. And the cost to the government is peanuts compared to the cost of all the teenage pregnancies by kids who sure as heck can't afford to raise kids.