Students who support life were outraged when their biology professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) said all preborn 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.
"It is encouraging to see students willing to protest this professor's inappropriate and anti-life comments,” said Dawn Vargo, associate bioethics analyst for Focus on the Family Action. “We need to be providing women who receive an adverse diagnosis like Down syndrome with the encouragement and resources they need to provide a loving home to their baby with disabilities."
The U.S. Senate currently is considering the Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act (S. 1810), which would provide up-to-date information and resources to families that receive adverse genetic diagnoses during pregnancy.
