Posted on 02/06/2009 8:33:57 PM PST by melt
Fourteen years after Dr. Joycelyn Elders was fired for supporting teaching about masturbation as a way to slow the spread of AIDS, the former U.S. surgeon general is still sharing her own fiery brand of straight talk, this time by likening the lack of comprehensive sex education in the United States to child abuse.
"If you don't educate young people and then they end up pregnant or with HIV ... if we don't provide health education for our young people it really is akin to child abuse," she said.
"We're a sexually unhealthy society," Elders said to a crowd of about 80 students and community members.
She cited statistics: one-quarter of young women aged 14 to19 have a sexually transmitted disease, 49 percent of young black woman have STDs, and each year 56,000 new people are diagnosed with HIV, more than 800,000 young women have unplanned pregnancies and there are 1.2 million abortions.
"And it's totally preventable," she said. "We have the knowledge, we have the necessary medications. We have the resources -- the condoms, the vaginal contraceptive film, birth control pills, the morning after (pills) -- but because we don't want our young people to know about it, we don't tell them."
"We've got to get over this (idea that) we can't tell them about it because if we tell them about sex they'll do it. They're already doing it. Let's stop running around trying to legislate morals and teach responsibility," she added.
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"And, even though most students graduate unable to read and write, they all learn how to make attractive penis gourds in arts and crafts class."
Elders drew fire — and censure from the Clinton administration — when she suggested that legalizing drugs might help reduce crime and that the idea should be studied. Almost immediately afterward, her son Kevin was arrested for cocaine possession, in what she still believes was a frame-up designed to embarrass her and the president.
That is one heavy picture:
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Hey--- shouldn't she be wearing protective gloves?
Shes seen more paper bags then http://www.papermart.com/pages/paperbag_welcome.htm?GOCMP=Papermart%5FCampaign+%231+%2D+High+Sales&GOMTC=Phrase&GOKEY=paper+bags&gclid=CIG8zMfbyZgCFQHHGgodeWjU1Q
she’s bbbaaaaaaacccckkk!
Child abuse is not teaching your children English in America. The poor immigrants will stay poor for generations, because of their hatred for the American Culture.
LOL
Designer no less...
That was my reaction. I figured she died and went to Hell. Now she’s back? Just like a bad penny; just like the rest of the Klintoon bunch that Zero brought back.
I’m pretty sure Bob Hope’s been dead for a few years now.
I’m pretty sure Bob Hope’s been dead for a few years now.
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