“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]
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