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ashling

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Tue Jan 19, 2016, 05:05 PM Jan 2016

Republican lawmaker interrogates students about their virginity during Teen Lobbying Day visit

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/republican-lawmaker-interrogates-students-about-their-virginity-during-teen-lobbying-day-visit/

While visiting lawmakers’ offices in Olympia with representatives from Planned Parenthood during Teen Lobbying Days, the group of Eastern Washington teens were stunned when State Rep. Mary Dye (R-Pomeroy) quizzed them over whether they had ever had sex.

Rachel Todd, a Planned Parenthood worker accompanying the kids, said that Dye asked them if they were virgins and indicated that one of them might not be.

“After she made the statement about virginity, all of my teens looked at me,” said Todd. “And I said, ‘You don’t have to answer that. You don’t have to answer that.’”

Failing to get a response, Dye shared some of her own views on marriage and sex.
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