(AgapePress) - 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.

Ziser felt the abstinence ad was both effective and accurate, but he says he is not surprised that the Nevada health officials pulled it. He says the abstinence message promoted in the radio spot would not have been "a natural thing" for Nevada's health officials to endorse.

"Just knowing the administration and what's going on there, it wouldn't typically be the kind of ad you would hear coming out of the State health department," Ziser says.

The pro-family politician, who is attempting to unseat incumbent Democrat Harry Reid, says abstinence is the only effective way to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease.

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