Editing C. Everett Koop (section)

====Koop Report====
Koop, an opponent of abortion, resisted pressure from the [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Reagan administration]] in 1987 to prepare a report stating that abortion was psychologically harmful to women.<ref name="NYT abortion">{{cite news|title=U.S. Data on Abortion Censored, House Unit Says|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/11/us/us-data-on-abortion-censored-house-unit-says.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 11, 1989}}</ref> He said it was not a public health issue but a moral one.<ref name="Bloomberg death">{{citation|author1-last=Schoifet|author1-first=Mark|title=C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General Who Took on Tobacco, Dies at 96|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-25/c-everett-koop-surgeon-general-who-took-on-tobacco-dies-at-96.html|url-access=subscription|work=Bloomberg.com|date=February 25, 2013 <!--16:00 GMT-->|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130228211719/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-25/c-everett-koop-surgeon-general-who-took-on-tobacco-dies-at-96.html|archive-date=February 28, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Koop assigned an assistant, George Walter, the task of researching the matter. Walter obtained a list of articles from the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC), authored mainly by CDC abortion-surveillance staff, and consulted with [[Alan Guttmacher Institute]] personnel. Walter wrote a draft report on his findings and gave it to Koop.

In a January 10, 1989, letter to Reagan, Koop said there was insufficient evidence to substantiate issuing the finding desired by the administration.<ref name="Bloomberg death" /><ref name="NYT abortion" /><ref name="NYT Leary">{{cite news|last=Leary|first=Warren E.|title=Koop Says Abortion Report Couldn't Survive Challenge|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/17/us/koop-says-abortion-report-couldn-t-survive-challenge.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 17, 1989}}</ref> He also commented about how some of the president's advisers thought that "it was a foregone conclusion that the negative health effects of abortion on women were so overwhelming that the evidence would force the reversal of ''[[Roe v. Wade]]''".<ref name="NYT Leary" />

Koop did not present the draft report to Reagan and claimed he never approved it.<ref name="NYT Leary" /> In March 1989, the "Koop Report" became public after it was [[subpoena]]ed and became part of a [[United States House of Representatives|Congressional]] subcommittee hearing.<ref name="NYT Leary" /> Although there were allegations that the report had not been released previously because it was biased, the document contained all arguments on both sides of the issue.<ref name="NYT Leary" />