Joycelyn Elders

Joycelyn Elders

Minnie Joycelyn Elders (born August 13, 1933) was Surgeon General of the United States from September 8, 1993 to December 31, 1994.

Quotes

• Handguns are a public health issue.
  • Hall, Mimi (9 November 1993). "Elders makes assault on guns". USA Today: pp. A5ff. 

• 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.
  • Sipchen, Bob (July 3, 1997). "Straight Talk From a Straight Shooter Journeys: Joycelyn Elders was known for her outspokenness during her run". Los Angeles Times: p. E-1. Retrieved on 2007-05-20. 

• 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.
  • Jessica Valenti (2014-05-23). "Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool". Feministing.com. Retrieved on 2014-05-23.

Abortion

• We must stop this love affair with the fetus.
  • Speech in Austin, Texas, January 21, 1994
  • Dreifus, Claudia (January 30, 1994). "Joycelyn Elders". New York Times Magazine: p. p. 19. 

• I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.
  • Jessica Valenti (2014-05-23). "Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool". Feministing.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-04.

• If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.
  • Jessica Valenti (2014-05-23). "Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool". Feministing.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-04.

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.
  • Jessica Valenti (2014-05-23). "Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool". Feministing.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-04.

• They are boycotting common sense.
  • On politicians who promote abstinence-only education
  • Jessica Valenti (2014-05-23). "Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool". Feministing.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-04.

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.
  • Jessica Valenti (2014-05-23). "Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool". Feministing.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-04.

External links

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1994-08-08/html/CREC-1994-08-08-pt1-PgE19.htm

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1994-05-17/html/CREC-1994-05-17-pt1-PgH7.htm