From former Surgeon General C Everett Koop
“I am frequently told by people who have never had the experience of working with children who are being rehabilitated into our society after the correction of a congenital defect that infants with such defects should be allowed to die or even “encouraged” to die, because their lives could obviously be nothing but unhappy and miserable.
Yet it has been my constant experience that disability and unhappiness do not necessarily go together. Some of the most unhappy children whom I have known have all of the physical and mental faculties and on the other hand some of the happiest youngsters have borne burdens which I myself would find very difficult to bear.”
C Everett Koop “The Slide to Auschwitz” in Ronald Reagan, Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1984″ 45 to 46 quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)
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