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born 1933
Minnie Joycelyn Elders (born August 13, 1933) 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.
Also known as: Jocelyn Elders
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We know that more than 70 to 80% of women masturbate, and 90% of men masturbate, and the rest lie.
We must stop this love affair with the fetus.
I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.
I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.
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.
Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.
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.
We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.
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.
[Abortion opponents] love little babies, as long as they're in somebody else's uterus.
Handguns are a public health issue.
They are boycotting common sense.
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