Why doesn't anybody talk about overpopulation? Isn't it obvious that there are way too many people on this planet? Isn't it clear that population control is essential for dealing with climate change? I mean really, people.

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Thursday, December 21, 2017

joycelyn elders

Joycelyn Elders was Bill Clinton's first Surgeon General. She had been the top medical officer in Arkansas when Clinton was governor there, and he brought her to Washington when he won the presidency. Elders quickly got into hot water for her outspoken ways, and Clinton finally had to let her go when she had the temerity to suggest in public that masturbation was an effective means of birth control.

One of her many quotable quotes has always stuck in my mind, though: 'Every child should be a planned and wanted child.' I think she hit the bull's-eye with that one. Succinct, to the point-- and right! Perhaps it was even more memorable because she put it in her ineffable Arkansas drawl: 'Effery chahl should be a pullannned and wohnted chahl.' Right on, Joycelyn!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joycelyn_Elders


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