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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.

— Joycelyn 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.

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