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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Lawmaker Straight-Up Asks A Group Of Teenagers If They're Virgins
Washington state Rep. Mary Dye (R) asked a group of teenagers visiting her office in Olympia for a Teen Lobbying Day if they were virgins, according to a Tuesday report from The Seattle Times.
The students, who were accompanied by a Planned Parenthood representative, were advocating for expanded insurance coverage for birth control, according to the report.
During their meeting, the Republican lawmaker asked the half-dozen students if they were virgins before she "suggested one was not," according to the Times. The Planned Parenthood representative, Rachel Todd, told the students they didn't have to answer Dye's question.
A Washington House Republicans spokesman confirmed Dye's line of questioning to the newspaper, and Dye herself later issued an apology.
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GOP Lawmaker Straight-Up Asks A Group Of Teenagers If They're Virgins (Original Post)
dixiegrrrrl
Jan 2016
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Yeah, that's the pisser...they feel so ENTITLED to run our lives and know our business.
dixiegrrrrl
Jan 2016
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randys1
(16,286 posts)1. There are no words left. One side hates everybody, one side doesnt.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)2. I am surprised that she didn't get
a response she was not ready for.
3catwoman3
(24,041 posts)3. None of her damned business.
How rude.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)4. Yeah, that's the pisser...they feel so ENTITLED to run our lives and know our business.
Rep or not, if she had asked MY daughter that question, she would have heard from me in a nano second.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)5. This lady is an idiot