
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:title>Dr. C. Everett Koop Speech at the White House</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>Abortion, Legal</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Euthanasia</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Infanticide</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Religion and Medicine</dc:subject>
  <dc: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&apos;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.</dc:description>
  <dc:contributor></dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Koop, C. Everett</dc:contributor>
  <dc:type>Speeches</dc:type>
  <dc:format>Archival Materials</dc:format>
  <dc:format>Text</dc:format>
  <dc:format>4 pages</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>nlm:nlmuid-101584930X444-doc</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>101584930X444</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X444</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>Profiles ID: QQBCBQ</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>English</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>Profiles in Science</dc:relation>
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