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Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders got a standing ovation after speaking at the annual summit of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice where she advocated health clinics offering contraceptives on public school campuses and comprehensive sex education in the schools starting in kindergarten.

“We ought to have comprehensive sex education in our schools, from kindergarten through 12th grade,” said Elders, who was fired by President Bill Clinton a little more than a year after he appointed her in 1993 because of remarks she made about teaching young people about masturbation as a way to keep them from becoming involved in riskier sexual behavior.

“I was a very big proponent of school-based clinics, and I still am,” Elders said at Wednesday’s summit at Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, D.C. “What better place to provide primary, preventive health care for 52 million children.

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“Somebody said, what do you teach them as a five year old?” Elders said. “You teach them that there are certain places on their body that nobody is supposed to touch. If they do, they should tell somebody, but with our code of silence we set up the perfect incubator that they’ll never talk to anybody.”