Happy birthday to seventy-eight-year-old former U.S. surgeon general Joycelyn Elders (born Minnie Lee Jones on August 13, 1933). In honor of one of the only appointees in recent times who spoke from scientific reasoning rather than religious-biased or politically softened mumbo jumbo I offer the following kernels of advice from Ms. Elders:
"You bright young people — and I love you — but you don't know what it was like for us old folk, when you couldn't have birth control pills, when condoms were not as readily available and we didn't have all the other contraceptives that are now on the market. I think if the women of this country — whether black, white, young, old, Democrat or Republican — cause the reproductive rights of any of our citizens to be lost, then we should never forgive ourselves."
source: http://www.theroot.com/views/root-interview-jocelyn-elders
"You bright young people — and I love you — but you don't know what it was like for us old folk, when you couldn't have birth control pills, when condoms were not as readily available and we didn't have all the other contraceptives that are now on the market. I think if the women of this country — whether black, white, young, old, Democrat or Republican — cause the reproductive rights of any of our citizens to be lost, then we should never forgive ourselves."
source: http://www.theroot.com/views/root-interview-jocelyn-elders
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