Designing Women (TV Series)

Killing All the Right People (1987)

Meshach Taylor: Anthony Bouvier

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Quotes 

• Carolyn Johnson : [At a PTA debate]  So why bring that kind of garbage

  [referring to condoms] 

  Carolyn Johnson : into the public school system?

  Mary Jo Shively : Because that garbage helps prevent AIDS. I am certainly in favor of abstinence, but i don't believe that it's realistic. To think...

  Carolyn Johnson : [Interrupting Mary Jo]  Oh, let's quit kidding around, shall we? What you are actually saying Mrs, Shively, is that if your 15-year-old daughter is determined to have sex,

  [Anthony and Kendall come in the door] 

  Carolyn Johnson : then you won't mind her going to a dance with a boy who has a condom in his wallet, paid for by your tax dollars. Isn't that correct?

  Anthony Bouvier : We had finished a little early. We thought we'd come by and give her a little moral support.

  Mary Jo Shively : What i am saying is, that i have a dear, sweet, funny friend, 24 years old, not very much older than the kids that we're talking about here and he came to me this week and asked me to help plan his funeral because he is dying, from AIDS. Something that he got before he even knew what it was or how to prevent it. I've been think a lot about his mother this week, and what she might give for the opportunity that i have tonight. That we all still have here tonight, because now we know how to help prevent AIDS. And I think that it really shouldn't matter what your personal views are about birth control, because, you see, we're not just talking about preventing births anymore. We're talking about preventing deaths. 25,000 Americans have died and we're still debating. Well, for me, this debate is over. More important than what any civic leader or PTA or board of education thinks about teenagers having sex or any immoral act that my daughter or your son might engage in, is the bottom line that I don't think they should have to die for it. Thank you.