Only in America: Republican lawmaker asks girls lobbying for Planned Parenthood if they're virgins

A State lawmaker crosses the line.
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A Republican lawmaker in Olympia, Washington, shocked a group of teenage girls lobbying for Planned Parenthood by asking them whether they were virgins. State Rep. Mary Dye, who is opposed to giving teens access to birth control, admitted that her "well-intended" comments about sex may have been too "motherly." One student called Dye's questions about the students' virginity "kind of insane."

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