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Jerome Lejeune

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Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was a French pediatrician and geneticist. He is best known for his work on the links between chromosome abnormalities like Down syndrome (trisomy-21) and cri du chat syndrome.

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Notable works: The tiniest humans

About Jerome Lejeune

Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was a French pediatrician and geneticist. He is best known for his work on the links between chromosome abnormalities like Down syndrome (trisomy-21) and cri du chat syndrome. He is also known for his subsequent strong opposition to the use of amniocentesis prenatal testing for eugenic purposes through selective and elective abortion. He was declared Venerable by Pope Francis on 21 January 2021.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jerome Lejeune

Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.

Forgiving

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To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter…

Abortion

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I look forward to the day when a mongolian idiot, treated biochemically, becomes a successful geneticist.

Idiot

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We have no acceptable theory of evolution at the present time. There is none; and I cannot accept the theory that I…

Acceptable

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After fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being.

Abortion

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[It] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion...it is plain experimental evidence.

Abortion

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To dissociate the child from love is, for our species, a methodological error: contraception, which is to make love without making a…

Abortion

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Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception.

Abortion

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