Explore Quotes by C. Everett Koop

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!

Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the Lourie Center has rededicated itself institutionally to continuing his important work.

The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather that we will respect each other's rights, especially the right to be different, and that, at the end of the day, we will understand that we are one people, one country, and one community, and that our well-being is inextricably bound up with the well-being of each and every one of our fellow citizens.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

The best prescription is knowledge.

If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.