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Samrob

(4,298 posts)
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 12:45 AM Mar 2023

Maybe Boebert and others need to hear from the first "woke" Surgeon General?

Meet Jocelyn Elders:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joycelyn_Elders#Comments_on_abortion_and_masturbation


"In January 1994 in the context of abortion, Elders said, "We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children."[9]

Later that year, she was invited to speak at a United Nations conference on AIDS. She was asked whether it would be appropriate to promote masturbation as a means of preventing young people from engaging in riskier forms of sexual activity, and she replied, "As per your specific question in regard to masturbation, I think that is something that is a part of human sexuality and it's a part of something that perhaps should be taught. But we've not even taught our children the very basics. And I feel that we have tried ignorance for a very long time and it's time we try education."[15]

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Maybe Boebert and others need to hear from the first "woke" Surgeon General? (Original Post) Samrob Mar 2023 OP
"we have tried ignorance for a very long time and it's time we try education." elleng Mar 2023 #1
Meatball says no. rubbersole Mar 2023 #2
She afflicted the comfortable Mopar151 Mar 2023 #3
She also went hard for supplying clean syringes for street addicts to get them into treatment. Samrob Mar 2023 #4

Mopar151

(10,311 posts)
3. She afflicted the comfortable
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 02:46 AM
Mar 2023

Did some groundbreaking work on teen pregnancy as well, which conflicted.with Full Gospel Morality.

Samrob

(4,298 posts)
4. She also went hard for supplying clean syringes for street addicts to get them into treatment.
Mon Mar 13, 2023, 12:54 PM
Mar 2023
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