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Letter from M. Joycelyn Elders, Antonia C. Novello, C. Everett Koop, Julius Richmond, S. Paul Ehrlich, Jr., and Jesse L. Steinfeld to Edward M. Kennedy
Letter from M. Joycelyn Elders, Antonia C. Novello, C. Everett Koop, Julius Richmond, S. Paul Ehrlich, Jr., and Jesse L. Steinfeld to Edward M. Kennedy
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Richmond, Julius B. (Julius Benjamin), 1916-2008 Elders, M. Joycelyn Koop, Charles Everett, 1916-2013 Steinfeld, Jesse L. Ehrlich, S. Paul, Jr United States. Congress. Senate Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 Novello, Antonia C.
In this letter, as well as in subsequent Congressional testimony, then current U. S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders (1993-1994), as well as former Surgeons General Antonia Novello, Koop, Julius Richmond, S. Paul Ehrlich, and Jesse Steinfeld opposed mandatory written parental consent to dispensing birth-control information and contraceptive aides to minors for fear that such a requirement would facilitate the spread of AIDS.
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