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In an essay published by the May 1973 issue of the AMA Prism, James Watson --the man who cracked the genetic code--argued on behalf of murdering, on eugenicist grounds, infants born with birth defects. "If a child were not declared alive until three days after birth, then all parents could be allowed the choice," wrote Watson. "[T]he doctor could allow the child to die if the parents so choose and save a lot of misery and suffering."
Watson, to his dubious credit, does not exempt his own flesh and blood from the application of his twisted principles. In a July 6th interview with Australian newspaper The Age, Watson insisted that he "would have aborted his son if a genetic test had been available at the time warning that his child would be born with severe epilepsy." The son, who wasn't named in the article, suffers from a severe form of epilepsy and "will soon ...
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