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Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
#21
RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
I think it's up to couples to decide on that. I know my girlfriend wouldn't abort a kid because he was an handicap but that's just her. To each his own.
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RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
(August 21, 2014 at 11:22 am)Napoléon Wrote: Sure it's not the nicest thing in the world to say, but let's be real, who really wants a down syndrome child?

Someone who really wants to be in-your-face with the whole "Sanctity of life" thing.
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#23
RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
First, the idea that a guy who will never have to face the decision on his own should be advising others what decision they should make is silly.

Second, as a public figure, he had to know what sort of stir this sort of comment would raise.

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#24
RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
I couldn't require a couple to maintain a pregnancy with some hinky prenatal test results.

I find gender selection odious, although it seems males are preferred so it improves odds for my tribe.

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#25
RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
I've said it before: Richard Dawkins is kind of a dick...

... doesn't make him wrong.
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RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
(August 21, 2014 at 11:59 am)Napoléon Wrote:
(August 21, 2014 at 11:55 am)Minimalist Wrote: BTW, why does that douchebag of a god create babies with Down's Syndrome?

Because everything is beautiful and part of his brilliant creation.

He needs a serious butt kicking for his cavalier attitude towards quality assurance, and undoubtedly atheists are the tools by which he would kick his own ass.
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#27
RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
dawkins is a cunt

yes this is true

some atheists aren't so cuntish

yes this is also true

move on
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#28
RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
I recall a certain political leader from the 20th century also being quite fond of eugenics.
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#29
RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
Might be interesting to speculate what Prof Dawkins could have said had he not been limited to 140 characters:

https://richarddawkins.net/2014/08/abort...witterwar/
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
(August 22, 2014 at 1:37 am)Polaris Wrote: I recall a certain political leader from the 20th century also being quite fond of eugenics.

I recall a certain political leader from the 20th century also being quite fond of making spurious, overreaching connections. Rolleyes

*Gasp!* And he used human language to do it! Polaris! You're just like Hitler! Confused Fall
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