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Professor says Down syndrome babies should die
Evangelical Press News Service
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Students who support life were outraged when their biology professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) said all pre-born babies who have been diagnosed with Down syndrome should be aborted. Professor Albert Harris, who has taught at UNC for 35 years, said he has made the same comment many times in order to spark discussion. Harris told students that aborting a Down syndrome baby is the moral thing to do. However, he would not abort his own disabled child, he told Raleigh’s News & Observer.


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