RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
August 23, 2014 at 12:10 am
(August 22, 2014 at 11:55 pm)Polaris Wrote:(August 22, 2014 at 10:13 am)Cato Wrote: What a stupd thing to say. Aborting a defective fetus is not eugenics.
"The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. "
What does abortion have to do with controlled breeding?
Abortion occurs after the breeding has already occurred. And if you abort a genetically flawed fetus to try again the next fetus will still get the same genes from you, even if it doesn't get whatever flaw.