A Surgeon General nominee ‘tied up in politics’

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9. The Office of Surgeon General was forever poisoned by this man:

Do we really need another symbolic political appointee? What we need is a good leader with experience in public health emergancies to make sure we are up to date. Antibiotic resistant diseases are becoming a crisis as well.

Rape practically never results in pregnancy. Studies in Pennsylvania and Minnesota concerning rape and pregnancy show that as many as five thousand rapes have occurred successively without a single pregnancy . .

Most people do not know that the younger the mother is the more likely she will suffer sterility later if she has an abortion. Studies in Canada indicate that sterility is as high as thirty percent among women fifteen to seventeen years old who have had abortions . .

Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my thirty-six years in pediatric surgery I have never known of one instance where the child had to be be aborted to save the mother's life.

C. Everett Koop, M. D., as told to Dick Bohrer, in "Moody Monthly," May, 1980