Dr. C. Everett Koop Speech at the White House
- Title:
- Dr. C. Everett Koop Speech at the White House
- Creator:
- Koop, Charles Everett, 1916-2013
- Date:
- [ca. 1984]
- Description:
- During the early years of his presidency, Ronald Reagan regularly invited anti-abortion and evangelical Christian groups to the White House. On those occasions White House staff asked Koop, whose outspoken opposition to abortion had initially brought him to Reagan's attention, to address these groups at the White House, sometimes together with the President, sometimes by himself. In this undated speech, delivered in 1984, Koop described his efforts while a pediatric surgeon in Philadelphia to find counseling and adoption services for women who had unwanted pregnancies, as an alternative to abortion.
- Location:
- Box: 139. Folder: 2
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Genre:
- Speeches
- Subject:
- Abortion, Legal, Euthanasia, Infanticide, and Religion and Medicine
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 4 pages
- Relation:
- Dr. C. Everett Koop Speech at the White House [Reminiscence], 2003
- Language:
- English
- Legacy ID:
- QQBCBQ
- NLM ID:
- 101584930X444
- Profiles Collection:
- The C. Everett Koop Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X444
- Story Section:
- Reproduction and Family Health