Rep. Mary Dye draws fire after meeting local teens

Mary Dye at the Colfax candidate forum in Oct. 2015.

A meeting last week in Olympia between state rep. Mary Dye and a group of teenagers representing Planned Parenthood resulted in controversy after Dye asked the students about their virginity.

Rachel Todd, Planned Parenthood Education Specialist for Greater Washington and North Idaho, led the group from Pullman High School as part of Planned Parenthood’s annual Teen Lobbying Day.

At the meeting in Dye’s office, the kids advocated for support of H.B. 2465, a bill that would allow types of birth control to be provided for 12 months at a time as...