Richard Dawkins: bigoted against those with Down's syndrome?

[moriah]

17. I'm about as pro-choice as they come, but unless a condition's bad enough to merit hospice care....

.... after birth, suggesting it's a mercy killing to have an abortion is extremely offensive to those who are alive with disabilities, particularly in this case Down Syndrome. Do their lives matter so little that it would have been better to abort them? That's pretty much what's being suggested.

If you have the option to cure the fetus but don't do so, that's fucked up and your logic would apply. But aborting it isn't a cure. I won't judge people who make that decision because they know they couldn't provide the kind of care the child would need or something, but suggesting that it should be standard policy or that it's somehow morally correct for all fetuses with DS to be aborted really chaps my hide.

C'mon, do we need to re-air "Life Goes On"?