Septuplets Get Offer of Full Scholarships to Missouri College
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Hannibal-LaGrange College, a 129-year-old Baptist institution, Friday offered full scholarships to any or all of the septuplets born last week in Iowa.
The school estimated the gift to be worth about $300,000 in today’s dollars. The president of the 1,100-student school, Woodrow Burt, said the offer was extended because of the strong Christian beliefs expressed by the parents, Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey of Carlisle, Iowa.
The McCaughey’s, staunch Baptists, rejected suggestions that they selectively abort some of the septuplets early in the pregnancy to increase the survival chances of the others.
The three girls and four boys born Wednesday in Des Moines are believed to be the world’s only living septuplets.
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