Dr. Cecil B. Jacobson, Chief of the Reproductive Genetics Unit at George Washington University Hospital at the time of this quote, said the following about the abortion of handicapped children:
“I can’t imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols [derogatory term for down syndrome children]… If we could tell what fetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.”
Cecil B. Jacobson, Chief, Reproductive Genetics Unit, George Washington University Hospital, Washington, D.C. Psychology Today, September 1975, page 22
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