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"I want every child thats born in the world to be planned and wanted."
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Joycelyn EldersIm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence o — Joycelyn Elders
"Im against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse."
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Joycelyn Elders
Joycelyn Elders
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Minnie Joycelyn Elders is an American pediatrician and public health administrator who served as Surgeon General of the United States from 1993 to 1994. A vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, she was the second woman, second person of color, and first African American to serve as Surgeon General.
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"We know that more than 70 to 80% of women masturbate, and 90% of men masturbate, and the rest lie."
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"We must stop this love affair with the fetus."
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"Handguns are a public health issue."
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"As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else."
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"How do you get rid of the trash? Its out there in society, its going on every day […] You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash."
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