“My goal is for everyone to be abstinent until they are married.”
– State Rep. Stuart Spitzer, R-Kaufman, when asked what he hoped to achieve by sponsoring an amendment that would divert $3 million from HIV/STD prevention to abstinence education.
This article appears in April 3 • 2015.
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