Del. Kathy Szeliga blasted the Maryland General Assembly for greenlighting a bill that would allow contraceptive vending machines in schools at every level.

Maryland has a notoriously low teenage birth rate, ranking among the bottom 20 states for teenage births as of 2022, the last year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected data. However, in Baltimore, the issue is much more prevalent, as there are twice as many teenage births in the capital than in the rest of the state, which is also three times greater than the national average.