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The Concentration Can: When Does Human Life Begin? an Eminent Geneticist Testifies

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A reporter who witnessed Jerome Lejuene's testimony reported that she felt as if she'd been in the presence of one of the Apostles. Rarely have brilliance and humility been so perfectly matched. Lejuene, who discovered the cause of Down Syndrome, traveled on his own initiative and at his own expense from Paris to a small town in Maryland to testify in the Davis frozen embryo case. "Love is the opposite of chilly," he muses, and the proper place for the youngest human beings is in the womb, "not in the fridge." Laced with his gentle good humor, and packed with mind-boggling information, The Concentration Can is a fascinating read.

Lejeune was a scientist who discovered the chromosomal cause of Down's Syndrome and many other things. After working in the US and his native France he won many awards in both. He became director of the Pasteur Institute in France. My only criticism of the book is that its major point would have been made more clearly if the book had been written in a straightforward manner rather than in a transcript of court testimoney with supporting documents.

A reporter who witnessed Jerome Lejuene's testimony reported that she felt as if she'd been in the presence of one of the Apostles. Rarely have brilliance and humility been so perfectly matched. Lejuene, who discovered the cause of Down Syndrome, traveled on his own initiative and at his own expense from Paris to a small town in Maryland to testify in the Davis frozen embryo case. "Love is the opposite of chilly," he muses, and the proper place for the youngest human beings is in the womb, "not in the fridge." Laced with his gentle good humor, and packed with mind-boggling information, "The Concentration Can" is a fascinating read.