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ESSAY 25
THE
"WE-KNOW-WHAT'S-BEST-FOR-YOU"
MYTH
LET PEOPLE SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES! Our former Surgeon General,
Dr. C. Everett Koop and Francis A. Schaeffer were making a
documentary film and co-authoring a book together, entitled,
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE HUMAN RACE? As part of the research,
they choose four of Dr. Koop's patients who had been born
with birth defects and four other children who had developed
life-threatening problems in early childhood. The patients
ranged in age from eleven to thirty years.
These eight people would probably have been aborted
today, or sedated and left to starve to death shortly after
birth. But they were allowed to live and to have corrective
treatment. They were glad to be alive. Some of their comments
were:
At times it got very hard, but life is certainly
worth living. I married a wonderful guy and I'm
just so happy. . . .
If anything, I think I've had an added quality to
my life--an appreciation of life. I look forward to
every single morning. . . .
I'm very glad to be alive. I live a full, mean-
ingful life.
One person was an anesthetist, another had taught school for
eight years, another was a graduate student. [Francis A.
Schaeffer and C. Everett Koop, M.D., WHATEVER HAPPENED TO
THE HUMAN RACE? (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company,
1979), pp. 64-65].
In contrast, Marilyn Monroe, a movie star who had a
"perfect" body, fame and money, apparently took her own life.
Likewise, Ernest Hemingway was a highly successful writer who
had no handicaps and had experienced the American dream, shot
himself to death in Ketchum, Idaho in 1969.
In my humble, but correct opinion, real love, content-
ment, joy and peace of mind do not come from a perfect body,
a high IQ, fame, or material wealth, but from a right rela-
tionship with God, fellow human beings and a right relation-
ship within.
Looks like it is strike three on the radical new left
social engineers, and they're out! (Or, should be out).
END