Reader Response
May, 1989
Dr. C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General of the United States, is a man who refuses to toe the party line. A darling of the New Right, he first surprised the nation with his repot on AIDS: "At the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, many Americans had little sympathy for people with AIDS. The feeling was that somehow people from certain groups 'deserved' their illness. Let us put those feelings behind us. We are fighting a disease, not a people."Now Dr. Koop has done it again: When asked to pr...
