Nancy L. Johnson: “in the real world it is not hard for kids to get condoms. We may not like it, but it is true. Would Members not rather…”

“in the real world it is not hard for kids to get condoms. We may not like it, but it is true. Would Members not rather that they got the advice that came from someone who said to them, you ought to talk to your mom and dad about that; that it was someone skilled enough that they would know how to tell that kid how to talk to their mom and dad? A lot of kids do not talk to their mom and dad about this stuff because they actually do not know how to approach it. They would sit them down and say, look, this is how you do it, then back them up, and say, come back to me and talk to me about it. A lot of kids need to be coached to talk to their parents, because their parents do not talk to them. Their parents do not talk to them, not just about sex, but also not about school, not about friendships, not about intimacy, not about love. If Members want to mandate, mandate that everyone has to get anything they want to use from a Title X clinic or any health clinic that meets these standards. Then every kid, including the kid that the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Manzullo) was so concerned about, she would have come someplace that was skilled in explaining to her, you do not have to participate in coercive sexual relationships. My point is that we do not tell kids this is coercive sex, we do not tell them they do not have to do this.”