
So many of us can't say the word because of the stigma that society, men and even women have attached to it. Yet there she was in all her glory speaking to us about abortion and citing examples and giving information...including the time before abortion was legal and being a doctor in the south.

All in all, she spoke of the rights of women to control their bodies and medical history and the prolong attacks by the right to subjugate women's rights while making those that object seem godless. Now more than ever, we need to find our voices.
Quotes from Dr. Elders:
"We must stop this love affair with the fetus." —Austin, Texas, Jan. 21, 1994
Quotes from Dr. Elders:
"We must stop this love affair with the fetus." —Austin, Texas, Jan. 21, 1994
"Education, education, education. The only way we are going to get around [AIDS] is with education. We have no vaccine, we have no magic drug. All we've got is education."
"Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders once said that women are up against a bear. And when you're dancing with a bear, you don't get tired. You have to wait until the bear gets tired. You have to keep fighting with everything you've got.
"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."[4]
"We know that more than 70 to 80% of women masturbate, and 90% of men masturbate, and the rest lie."[4]
"Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms."[5]
"We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time to try education."[4]
"I'm against Abstinence programs, because I really consider Abstinence Only to be child abuse."[4]
"We know that more than 70 to 80% of women masturbate, and 90% of men masturbate, and the rest lie."[4]
"Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms."[5]
"We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time to try education."[4]
"I'm against Abstinence programs, because I really consider Abstinence Only to be child abuse."[4]
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