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A candidate for the U.S. Senate is criticizing the Nevada State Health Division’s decision to pull an abstinence advertisement from the radio.

The public service announcement encourages teenage girls to abstain from premarital sex, implying that not doing so could leave them feeling “dirty and cheap.”

The Nevada Health Division dropped the radio ad after concluding that its language was not appropriate for the audience it hoped to reach. But pro-family politician Richard Ziser believes the Health Division caved in to political correctness.

The Senate-seat hopeful heard the ad on the air and was surprised at the nature of it, and “actually quite pleased, because I thought it sounded pretty good,” he says. According to Ziser, the source of the controversy about the ad is obvious.

“Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union are the ones who are complaining about [the ad]. So if they’re complaining about it, then typically, I would be happy with it,” he says.

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