14 October 1916 A.D. Birth: Dr. C. Everett Koop, U.S. Surgeon General and PCA Elder (Tenth Presbyterian for years)
14 October 1916 A.D. Birth: Dr. C. Everett Koop, U.S. Surgeon General and PCA Elder (Tenth Presbyterian for years) Myers, David T. “October 14: Dr. C. Everett Koop.” This Day in Presbyterian History. 14 Oct 2015. http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2015/10/october-14-3/ . Accessed 14 Oct 2015. October 14: Dr. C. Everett Koop To Spare a Mother’s Life is a Myth of Abortion The statement of the medical doctor blew the lid off of one of the more famous grounds of abortion. He said, “protection of the life of the mother as an exercise of abortion is a smoke screen. In my thirty-six years of pediatric surgery, I have never known of one instances where the child had to be aborted to save the mother’s life. If toward the end of the pregnancy complications would arise that threaten the mother’s life, the doctor will induce labor or perform a Caesarean section. His intention is to save the life of both the mother and the...