Richard Dawkins was talking with someone on Twitter who suggested that it was an ethical dilemma about what someone would do if they were pregnant with a Down's syndrome baby.
Dawkins replied "Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice."
I tried to see if there was some misrepresentation going on here, by looking at the longer Twitter conversation, but to me it looks as though Dawkins later tried to back-pedal a little to pretend it was only something that he would personally do and that it should be up to anyone else to make the decision, yet clearly his clarification " It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice" suggests to me that it is nothing less than morally wrong to knowingly have a Down's syndrome child.
Then some passive aggressive self-pity:
"Apparently I'm a horrid monster for recommending WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS to the great majority of Down Syndrome fetuses. They are aborted."
Dawkins replied "Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice."
I tried to see if there was some misrepresentation going on here, by looking at the longer Twitter conversation, but to me it looks as though Dawkins later tried to back-pedal a little to pretend it was only something that he would personally do and that it should be up to anyone else to make the decision, yet clearly his clarification " It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice" suggests to me that it is nothing less than morally wrong to knowingly have a Down's syndrome child.
Then some passive aggressive self-pity:
"Apparently I'm a horrid monster for recommending WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS to the great majority of Down Syndrome fetuses. They are aborted."
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