On the recordSeptember 9, 1997
Any program that deliberately bypasses parents to provide birth control devices to minors, in my judgment, is an egregious violation of family values. It is little less than legitimating promiscuity. What kind of a lesson do we teach? We teach youngsters, young ladies in particular, young women, to conceal from their parents the fact that they are engaged in sexual activity and we, the clinic, will facilitate, if not condone, that activity by providing condoms, drugs, or pills. We legislate as though every family or most families are dysfunctional. I submit there are dysfunctional families but they are the minority and not the majority. Sexual activity has serious, serious consequences, the movies on cable television notwithstanding.
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