Representative Pine Speaks on the Choose for Abstinence Ed.

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House Bill 464 requires recipients of state funding that provide sexual health education to provide medically accurate, factual information that is age-appropriate and includes education on both abstinence and contraception. (HB464 HD2) Representative Kymberly Pine, in the Capitol TV excerpt, responded to Democratic reading of statistical data presented on the chamber floor: "We can look at data in many different ways. Many people will come up with data that will refute that. The previous speaker said that one of the studies said that there was no difference between abstinence education and the sexually accurate education. So I'm saying just from that report alone, then why are we discriminating against the abstinence-only education." "We talked about an increase in the last 15 years. I remember 15 years ago you could catch a City bus and they'll be ads about teen pregnancy and abstinence or contraception, there were ads on television. It was a national movement I know, 15 years ago. We're talking about it all the time, so perhaps those numbers are kind of skewed because we're not talking about it enough in a public setting, not just in the schools, but all over Hawaii and in the nation. So I think some of those numbers are not quite accurate." "And on a religious point: I want to reveal I am Catholic but I personally do not see a problem with sexually accurate education or abstinence education in my family. However, I'm increasingly concerned we are continually going after the beliefs of Catholics in this Legislature. Not only this particular bill, but also in a later bill that forces a Catholic hospital to serve what they believe is an abortion pill. Our Constitution of the United States of America gives us this great freedom of religion and the way that we're trying to force this type of education, on not just Catholics but religious families, to me is wrong." "We basically are saying 10 a parent that is religious, whether they're Buddhist or Mormon or Catholic or Protestant or other Christian, that them teaching their children abstinence-only education based on their religious beliefs, according 10 this Legislature is just wrong. And you know what? We're going 10 stick it to you. We're going to take away, this abstinence-only education from the public setting. We're no longer going to give you that option because you don't have a right to teach your children abstinence-only education. And you know what? We're going to slick it 10 the federal government too, because we don't want their money, because we're going to force every child 10 believe what we want our children 10 believe. "

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