WI No C. Everett Coop

What if C. Everett Coop didn't become prominent? What effects would this have on abortion, AIDS, tobacco, and the rights of disabled children?
 
I think it depends who becomes Suregon General instead. If Reagan appoints some really ideological Moral Majority type, you might see an SG's office that's a little more pro-active, so to speak, on abortion, probably promoting the mental-illness link which right-wingers loved but that Koop, on scientific grounda, rejected. Though that doesn't have any actual impact on the legality of abortion or even public funding.

As for AIDS, I think the SG's office would eventually have gotten around to a more credible public-health approach, Reagan's infamous silence notwithstanding. It's not the kind of thing you can ignore forever just to appease the see-nothing crowd.
 
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