[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 135 (Tuesday, September 13, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H6105]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          RESPONSIBLE CHOICES

  (Mr. HULTGREN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HULTGREN. Mr. Speaker, in these dire financial times, government 
must identify what works and what doesn't, even when it comes to sex 
education for our kids.
  The CDC released a fascinating study this year that found that two-
thirds of teens, ages 15 to 17, are abstaining from sex. In fact, 70 
percent of parents support abstinence until marriage for their teens.
  But under this administration, we have seen a troubling 16:1 funding 
disparity between contraceptive-centered education and sexual risk 
avoidance education.
  That's why last week I filed a bill, H.R. 2874, to restore fairness 
to the funding and direct it instead to programs which give our kids 
the facts about contraception without distorting them.
  I am a dad of four great kids, two of them teenagers. I have a 15-
year-old daughter, Kylie, and a 17-year-old son, Karsten, who may, in 
fact, be watching right now. Nothing is more important to me than 
seeing them make responsible choices. I have every confidence that they 
will. Now I'm just hoping the House and Senate will do the same.

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