RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
August 22, 2014 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2014 at 5:14 pm by Losty.)
(August 22, 2014 at 3:27 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Someone tweeted Dawkins saying they didn't know what they would do. Dawkins gave his opinion. Nothing more than that really. He's not advocating any sort of legal action or eugenicist mindset, he's saying what he would do. Nothing he said is in contradiction to anything you've said. Except maybe the tone.
Oh I wasn't criticizing Dawkins on this, I was just adding my opinion. I personally disagree that a fetus with Down syndrome "should" be aborted. It doesn't bother me that someone else thinks that though. It's not like he said, "it should be illegal to carry a fetus to term if it likely has Down syndrome". Then I would understand the outrage.
I would probably say that a fetus should be aborted whenever the woman carrying it wants/chooses to have an abortion for whatever reason she has. Said reason being none of my damn business.