Joycelyn Elders
Surgeon General of the United States from September 8, 1993 to December 31, 1994.
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How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day […] You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash.
Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
We know that more than 70 to 80% of women masturbate, and 90% of men masturbate, and the rest lie.
We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.
If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.
Handguns are a public health issue.
I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.
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.
If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper.
If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.
I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.
We must stop this love affair with the fetus.
They are boycotting common sense.
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