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...arguing that testing is the only way to track and ultimately contain the spread of the fatal virus, which has been detected in nearly 36,000 Americans but may already have infected as many as 1.5 million. Opposing him have been medical professionals led by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who contends that mandatory testing would have the undesirable effect of causing many possible carriers of the virus to hide their condition for fear of being stigmatized...
This week Ronald Reagan, who has mostly been silent about AIDS, finally offered his opinion -- and the result could mean that blood tests will be requested from millions of Americans. During a meeting of the Domestic Policy Council attended by both Bennett and Koop, the President expressed bewilderment about objections to testing. "Why should we handle this any - differently than we handled any other epidemic?" he asked. "We have an obligation to protect innocent people." The President's remarks, said one participant, "were in the form of an inquiry, but it was obvious he was making a statement...
Until the Administration reached its policy regarding testing, Washington's principal weapon in the battle against AIDS had been fear. Health and Human Services Secretary Otis Bowen has likened the disease to the black death, while Koop has preached about the dangers of AIDS for every sexually active heterosexual. Such alarmist warnings have caused an epidemic of anxiety, and many scientists and researchers are claiming that such widespread fears are unfounded. Koop admits that his dire statements about AIDS are not universally accepted in the medical community. But, he argues, "as a health officer, I have to say that...
After a career of nearly 30 years as one of the nation's leading pediatric surgeons, Dr. C. Everett Koop was nearing retirement age in the mid-1970s when he decided that the fight against abortion was as important as the effort to save lives on the operating table. A devout evangelical Christian, Koop poured out his prolife passions in two books, five educational films and a nationwide lecture tour. His style of argument was anything but dispassionate: in one film segment, Koop looked over a sea of naked dolls symbolizing aborted fetuses, and proclaimed, "I am standing...
This prolife pedigree prompted Ronald Reagan to nominate Koop as Surgeon General in 1981. For eight months the appointment was held up in Congress as liberals challenged Koop's views, his zealotry and his public-health credentials. When Koop finally won Senate confirmation, few expected him to limit his public advocacy to health warnings on cigarette packs...