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Thursday, February 21, 2008

More on Judging Decisions Not to Abort

In a post several weeks ago, I expressed concern about the development of an expectation among some medical personnel and others that pregnant women should abort in certain circumstances.  Now we get a story of a biology professor at the University of North Carolina telling his students that "the moral thing" for older women who become pregnant is to have an amniocentesis and then abort the fetus if it has the Down Syndrome chromosome.  If we continue along this path, who else will people decide doesn't have the right to live?  If we can identify in utero that a fetus will be born with a below average intelligence, will women start being told it is immoral to bring the child into the world?  What about indications that the fetus will be born with serious physical deformities? 

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