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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

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" http://www.sho.com/site/video/player.do?video=/134/2006/abstinence&seriesid=134 [4.10], 5 June 2006

“Handguns are a public health issue.”

Joycelyn Elders

[Mimi, Hall, Elders makes assault on guns, USA Today, 9 November 1993, A5ff]

“I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.”

Joycelyn Elders

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" http://www.sho.com/site/video/player.do?video=/134/2006/abstinence&seriesid=134 [4.10], 5 June 2006 Abstinence 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.”

Joycelyn Elders

"Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool", 2014-05-23, Jessica Valenti, w:Jessica Valenti, 2014-05-23, Feministing.com http://web.archive.org/web/20070713094431/http://feministing.com/archives/007116.html,

“Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.”

Joycelyn Elders

"Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool", 2007-06-04, Jessica Valenti, w:Jessica Valenti, 2014-05-23, Feministing.com http://web.archive.org/web/20070713094431/http://feministing.com/archives/007116.html, Abstinence education

“We must stop this love affair with the fetus.”

Joycelyn Elders

Speech in Austin, Texas, January 21, 1994
[Claudia, Dreifus, Joycelyn Elders, New York Times Magazine, p. 19, January 30, 1994, 2007-06-05]
Abortion

Joycelyn Elders Quotes

“We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.”

Joycelyn Elders

On sex education Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" http://www.sho.com/site/video/player.do?video=/134/2006/abstinence&seriesid=134 [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.”

Joycelyn Elders

“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.”

Joycelyn Elders

Source: [Bob, Sipchen, http://www.aegis.com/news/lt/1997/LT970701.html, Straight Talk From a Straight Shooter Journeys: Joycelyn Elders was known for her outspokenness during her run, Los Angeles Times, E-1, July 3, 1997, 2007-05-20]

“We know that more than 70 to 80% of women masturbate, and 90% of men masturbate, and the rest lie.”

Joycelyn Elders

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" http://www.sho.com/site/video/player.do?video=/134/2006/abstinence&seriesid=134 [4.10], 5 June 2006 Masturbation

“They are boycotting common sense.”

Joycelyn Elders

On politicians who promote abstinence-only education "Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool", 2007-06-04, Jessica Valenti, w:Jessica Valenti, 2014-05-23, Feministing.com http://web.archive.org/web/20070713094431/http://feministing.com/archives/007116.html, Abstinence education

“I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.”

Joycelyn Elders