""A core belief of mine is the importance of honesty. When … - Joycelyn Elders

""A core belief of mine is the importance of honesty. When we stop talking openly about sex, we stop communicating important information to our young people. Then you have worse reproductive health, more teenage pregnancy, higher rates of HIV/AID".

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

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Birth Name: Minnie Lee Jones

Alternative Names: Minnie Joycelyn Elders

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

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

We must stop this love affair with the fetus.

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