House Proceeding 11-16-09 on Nov 16th, 2009 :: 0:41:55 to 0:47:10
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Barbara Lee: black caucus, the c.b.c. is chaired by the gentlelady from california, barbara lee. i am represent -- representative marcia fudge. we are joined

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Speech By: Barbara Lee

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Barbara Lee: chairwoman. ms. lee: let me thank congresswoman marcia fudge for her leadership and f continuing to voice the concerns of so many who may or may not have a choice in this -- voice in this house. i want to thank you for tonight's special order on the needs of men women because in this economic downturn, where

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Barbara Lee: women still only make about 66 cents to the dollar, women, again, are feeling the brunt of these very, v times. and so, thank you again for continuing to keep our congressional blac caucus fosed on addressing that don't always receive the attention they deserve.

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Barbara Lee: thank you, let me talk briefly about the issue of adolescent health and the challengethat many young women and girls face in information they need to really just take care of themselves. for too long now, our country has led with

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Barbara Lee: policy when it comes to sex education for our young people. unfortunately, for women, and women of color, and young girls that policy has led to an increase in teen pregnancies and in the rate of sexually transmitted infections. today the rate of unintended

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Barbara Lee: teen pregnancies in the united higher than most other developed nations. each year, almost 750,000 women between the ages of 15 and 19 get pregnant. 750,000 women and the pregnancy os cur among women of co-already. the sad reality is that bore

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Barbara Lee: they turned 20, 5 % of yuck latinas and 51% -- of latinas and 51% of young african-american women will become pregnant at least once. the comparable rate among non-hispanic, white women is 19%. it doesn't end there, though.

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Barbara Lee: each year, there are 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted infections, almost half of them occur in young people ages 15 to 24. the c.d.c. recently found that young, sexually active teenage girls are especially at risk, as nearly one in four is living with a common sex

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Barbara Lee: transmitted infection. among sexually active nearly one in two is living with a sexually transmitted infection. when it comes to h.i.v. and aids, the story gets a heck of a lot worse. african-american women are nearly 15 times more likely to have h.i.v. than white women, while latinas are four times

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Barbara Lee: more likely to have h.i.v. than white women. aids is also the leading cause of death among african-american women between the ages of 24 and 34. clearly we're not doing our part to provide women and young people with the tools they need to protect themselves.

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Barbara Lee: that's why i introduced h r. 1551, the responsible education about life act. i call it, let's get real. my real act. this bill will create the first federal funding stream dedicated to teaching our people about comprehensive sex education. the statistics i just mentioned really warrant this type of a

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Barbara Lee: bill to be passed and signed into law. ou young people need to know how to protect themselves. yes we need abstinence and we need to teach young people abstinence. but absti not work. we need an appr contraceptive use and condemns

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Barbara Lee: to prevent unplanned pregnancies and reduce the speed of sexually transmitted diseases. once again, we have to look at some past and see how devastating they've been in impact on our young women. policy, based on the statistics i just read you tonight,

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Barbara Lee: deserves to be dismantled and abandon. we need to allow space to use federal fund, if they so dezero and if the states think this is the strategy they want to use, allow federal money to be distributed to the states to teach comprehensive sex education to our young people so they can grow up, go to cool, do whatever they want to

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Barbara Lee: do, without worry of pregnancies or h.i.v. and aids or sexually transmitted infection. thank you, congresswoman fudge, for allowing me to speak this evening on a very tough issue.