Dr. Koop opposed eugenic abortions at Christ Hospital
I was sad to learn Dr. C. Everett Koop passed away on February 25.
Dr. Koop was President Ronald Reagan’s pro-life surgeon general.
Read Dr. Koop’s touching obituary at World Magazine.
I came to personally learn just how strongly pro-life Dr. Koop was in 1999.
I had just publicly revealed that my employer, Christ Hospital, was committing late-term abortions, and any abortion survivors were being shelved to die in a soiled utility room in the Labor & Delivery Department.
I had also revealed that Christ Hospital’s parent company, Advocate Health Care, was in the process of making its unofficial abortion policy official. Hospitals in the system were already aborting babies with Down syndrome and Spina bifida, among other handicaps. Advocate was merely planning to put the practice into writing.
It is at that time Dr. Koop wrote a letter of protest to Laurence O’Connell, then Advocate’s Chief Ethics Officer.
I will also be grateful to Dr. Koop for the special interest he took in the helpless little babies being aborted at Christ Hospital. Click his letter to enlarge…
Download the pdf of Dr. Koop’s letter here.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
May God’s angels lead Dr. Everett Koop to everlasting peace.
He was a good man. God rest his soul.
He’s headed straight to heaven with open arms.
“His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’” ~ Matthew 25:21.
Abortion can be seen to have a creepy eugenic connection. Even supporters of legal abortion were hesitant to applaud the study that connected a decrease in the American crime rate to Roe v. Wade. Indeed, the conclusion of that study was indisputably eerie: the people who would have become criminals were never born. That’s actually NOT completely good news for the legalization crew: If those likely to grow up to become murderers, rapists, muggers, etc. were not born because of legal abortion, it means that women are indeed blocked from abortion by anti-abortion laws.
The legalizers didn’t trumpet the study because it made abortion seem like a kind of eugenics. It also made it seem like a kind of pre-emptive execution.
Duh, abortion isn’t anything else except an execution of an innocent child.
Even supporters of legal abortion were hesitant to applaud the study that connected a decrease in the American crime rate to Roe v. Wade.
I beg to differ. Henry Morgentaler made that argument in 1999, two years before “The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime” was published. Planned Parenthood did the same in a 2005 document (though quickly scrubbed it after they realized that it might not be the best PR move):
http://mu-warrior.blogspot.ca/2005/09/planned-parenthood-advocates-abortion.html
Navi says:
February 27, 2013 at 9:54 pm
Even supporters of legal abortion were hesitant to applaud the study that connected a decrease in the American crime rate to Roe v. Wade.
I beg to differ. Henry Morgentaler made that argument in 1999, two years before “The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime” was published. Planned Parenthood did the same in a 2005 document (though quickly scrubbed it after they realized that it might not be the best PR move):
– See more at: http://www.jillstanek.com/2013/02/dr-koop-opposed-eugenic-abortions-at-christ-hospital/#comments
In general, they didn’t point to that study linking Roe v. Wade to a decreased crime rate.
The possibility that crime went down because potential criminals weren’t born is eerie, brings up the specter of eugenics, and makes abortion seem like a kind of pre-emptive death penalty.
The fact is that many people who support abortion’s legality also oppose the death penalty. It is hardly comfortable to state that the people who would have ended up on Death Row had they been born missed getting born due to legal abortion. It might well be true but it is extremely eerie.
Eh. I’ve met plenty of people who are perfectly comfortable with that, and actually use it as their primary reason for supporting legal abortion.
SO you are saying that you want to force people to have children that they will have to support for the rest of their lives just to make your imaginary god happy?
Please get out of other people’s lives. If you stayed married and didn’t violate “God’s Holy Union” by getting divorced on a regular basis you might at least be setting a better example. I’d rather people got an abortion than playing the silly game of having girls until they get a boy.
Tell you what – I won’t protest in front of your churches if you won’t protest at abortion clinics
“I’d rather people got an abortion than playing the silly game of having girls until they get a boy.”
W.O.W.
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War on Women
RIP Dr. Koop.