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...replacement for the controversial Joycelyn Elders, President Clinton nominated Henry Foster Jr., a Nashville, Tennessee, obstetrician-gynecologist and acting head of Meharry Medical College, to become the nation's new Surgeon General. The President said he wanted Foster, the founder of a Nashville program aimed at delaying teen sexual activity through counseling, job training and medical services, to focus on battling the nation's "epidemic of teen pregnancies and unmarried pregnancies." Conservative groups immediately labeled Foster "Elders Lite," because he supports the use of condoms. He has admitted performing "fewer than a dozen'' abortions, but most congressional Republicans withheld their...
President Clinton nominated Henry Foster Jr., the former acting president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, to replace ex-Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders. In an Oval Office address, Clinton ordered Foster to "help America attack the epidemic of teen pregnancies and unmarried pregnancies." Administration officials said they expected Foster to be far less controversial than Elders, whom Clinton sacked in December for saying school children should be taught about masturbation. But conservative activists were quick to note that Foster's health politics were strikingly similar to Elders', especially his eight-year-old "I Have a Future" program, which distributes condoms...
Could it be the bear market in liberal shibboleths? Without Joycelyn Elders, midnight basketball and the Hillary Rodham Clinton socialized-medicine task force, are the easy targets gone? Not at all. "Just look at Dick Gephardt trying to run against Clinton for President, saying the way to get rid of welfare is to spend more on it, and coming up with a flatter tax than the Republicans," he says. "I tell people don't kill all the liberals, leave enough around so we can have two on every campus; living fossils, so we will never forget what these people stood...
...JOYCELYN ELDERS...
Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders resigned last week at President Clinton's request, eight days after she remarked that schoolchildren should perhaps be taught about masturbation. The White House cited the growing list of areas in which the President and Elders disagree -- from possible legalization of drugs to distribution of condoms in schools -- as the reason for the President's action...