Joycelyn Elders

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• Handguns are a public health issue.
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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.
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        • We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.
          • On sex education
          • Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" [4.10], 5 June 2006
        
        
        • 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.
          • Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" [4.10], 5 June 2006
        
        
        • If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.
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            Abortion

            • We must stop this love affair with the fetus.
              • Speech in Austin, Texas, January 21, 1994
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                • I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.
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                    • If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.
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                        Abstinence education

                        • I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.
                          • Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" [4.10], 5 June 2006
                        
                        
                        • Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
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                            • They are boycotting common sense.
                              • On politicians who promote abstinence-only education
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                                Masturbation

                                • We know that more than 70 to 80% of women masturbate, and 90% of men masturbate, and the rest lie.
                                  • Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" [4.10], 5 June 2006
                                
                                
                                • If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper.