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On the recordJuly 9, 2013
the arguments you have presented here today may well be sound policy arguments, why abstinence only should not be the curriculum
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Ted Cruz
Republican · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Cruz acknowledges the validity of arguments against abstinence-only education as policy.

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