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The best prescription is knowledge. C. Everett Koop. Health, Knowledge, Personal Growth. 43 Copy quote. In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life. C. Everett Koop. Christian, Mother, Years. 46 Copy quote.
Jan 11, 1989 · Dr. Koop contends that he remains personally opposed to abortion, but he said in an interview this morning on ABC-TV's ''Good Morning America,'' ''I've always been able to separate my personal...
Abortion proved the most vexing issue of Koop's tenure because it blurred the boundary between public health and personal moral choices. Koop was exasperated by criticism that he had abandoned his stance on abortion, which as an evangelical Christian he had strongly opposed throughout his life.
May 9, 1989 · Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, the nation's leading public health officer for the past seven years and an outspoken figure in the debates over AIDS, abortion and smoking, announced last...
Koop, an opponent of abortion, resisted pressure from the Reagan administration in 1987 to prepare a report stating that abortion was psychologically harmful to women. He said it was not a public health issue but a moral one. [1]
Dec 8, 2022 · Koop didn’t shy away from issues imbued with controversy. I will have more to say about Koop’s speaking truth to power. [1] As Mary Dent Crisp, a pro-choice Republican, Co-Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, tells it, she resigned on national television when learning President-elect Reagan was reversing his stance on abortion.