Biology Professor: "Moral Thing to Do" is Abort Down Syndrome Fetuses

From The Associated Press (February 16):

Professor's comments on Down's syndrome anger some students
A University of North Carolina professor has angered some of his students after saying he thinks fetuses with Down syndrome should be aborted.

Albert Harris, 65, made the comment in his embryology class. He has taught in Chapel Hill for 35 years.

"In my opinion," Harris wrote in his lecture notes, "the moral thing for older mothers to do is to have amniocentesis, as soon during pregnancy as is safe for the fetus, test whether placental cells have a third chromosome #21, and abort the fetus if it does. The brain is the last organ to become functional."...

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Comments

[Jenifer Simpson]

Not only is this professor needlessly opining in a biology class, but his hypocrisy --- he wouldn't follow his own moral position -- shows how irresponsible he is. Should college students have to put up with this lack of integrity from the people who are paid to teach them?