In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune offers JEERS to Washington state Rep. Mary Dye, R-Pomeroy:

Put yourself in the place of the five Pullman-area teenagers - four young women and one young man - who visited her Olympia office Monday as members of the Palouse Teen Council of Planned Parenthood. Imagine trying not to feel intimidated by the trappings of the center of state government.Imagine representing an organization that conservative eastern Washington lawmakers do not sympathize with - and one whose Pullman center was targeted by an arsonist. Imagine lobbying Dye to consider supporting a measure that would allow women to purchase a year's worth of contraception at a time - rather than make monthly visits to the pharmacy. And imagine the embodiment of authority stopping you in mid-sentence with: "OK, so we know you're not a virgin," Dye said. "Now how about the rest of you?" More here.

Question: Do you agree with the jeer here?

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