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But visiting as part of Planned Parenthood’s annual Teen Lobbying Day, the group of about a half-dozen got that question from Dye, a Republican lawmaker from Pomeroy, Garfield County.

After the students — part of a Pullman-area teen council chapter of Planned Parenthood visiting their lawmakers — advocated for bills that propose to expand insurance coverage for birth control, Dye did some advocating of her own.

Dye asked if the students were virgins and suggested one was not, according to the students and Rachel Todd, a Planned Parenthood worker accompanying the kids.

“After she made the statement about virginity, all of my teens looked at me,” said Todd, an education specialist for Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho. “And I said, ‘You don’t have to answer that. You don’t have to answer that.’”

Dye then gave her opinions to the students about sex and making the right choices, according to those in the room.

“I’ve never been in any type of meeting, especially with teens,” Todd said, “where an adult, especially an adult legislator, was so incredibly disrespectful and inappropriate.”

“Our teens, many of them who are lobbying for the very first time, expect a certain amount of professionalism in these meetings,” added Erik Houser, spokesman for Planned Parenthood’s advocacy arm in Washington.

kalm wrote:What's worse in your mind...asking a bunch of kids on an official visit if they're virgins or the fact that Planned Parenthood has a high school teen lobbying arm?

But visiting as part of Planned Parenthood’s annual Teen Lobbying Day, the group of about a half-dozen got that question from Dye, a Republican lawmaker from Pomeroy, Garfield County.

After the students — part of a Pullman-area teen council chapter of Planned Parenthood visiting their lawmakers — advocated for bills that propose to expand insurance coverage for birth control, Dye did some advocating of her own.

Dye asked if the students were virgins and suggested one was not, according to the students and Rachel Todd, a Planned Parenthood worker accompanying the kids.

“After she made the statement about virginity, all of my teens looked at me,” said Todd, an education specialist for Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho. “And I said, ‘You don’t have to answer that. You don’t have to answer that.’”

Dye then gave her opinions to the students about sex and making the right choices, according to those in the room.

“I’ve never been in any type of meeting, especially with teens,” Todd said, “where an adult, especially an adult legislator, was so incredibly disrespectful and inappropriate.”

“Our teens, many of them who are lobbying for the very first time, expect a certain amount of professionalism in these meetings,” added Erik Houser, spokesman for Planned Parenthood’s advocacy arm in Washington.

JoltinJoe wrote:Planned Parenthood has a teen lobbying arm? I never knew that. I guess it's important to brainwash young women by "empowering" them into aborting their offspring.

I liked the original feminists better. The ones like who knew that abortion was a societal act of violence against women.