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

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71. I'm sorry

I support women's rights to choose what to do with their bodies 100%.

If they choose to abort a fetus that is their choice.

If a woman decides she doesn't want a child with Down Syndrome that is her choice and none of my business.

What I am about to say isn't about Abortion, it is about people's attitudes towards others with disabilities.

Because that is my business. Because now you aren't just talking about a fetus connected to a woman's body, but you are demeaning walking around talking human beings that are part of this society.

This attitude toward Down Syndrome is disgusting.

It is pure disgusting.

It is eugenics.

When asked about people with autism and where he would "draw the line" he said:
"People on that spectrum have a great deal to contribute, Maybe even an enhanced ability in some respects. DS not enhanced"

Holy fucking shit. He is making the decision that someone with a disability doesn't deserve to live. That is what he is saying. Fuck you Richard Hawkins. Fuck you.

I will tell you a story. I once knew of a preschool class of four-year-old children. A little boy in there had a father who was terminally ill with cancer. The boy would play doctor's office every day. His father was at home in a hospital bed. He would want to play out what he was experiencing, as if he was trying to work it out. He wanted to play hospital and lay sick in the bed. And the other kids got tired of this game really fast and left him. Except one little four year old girl with Down Syndrome, who played the nurse and the doctor and the patient and played that game with that boy for months when all the other kids were way passed wanting to be around it.

That is the "DS not enhanced."

I have a little boy in my scout group with Down Syndrome. He and my son have been close friends since kindergarten, they are 10 years old now. Unfuckingbelievable that this guy says that this boy has "nothing to contribute." He contributes every day to the people around him.

How fucking horrible can someone be? Awful. I just want to throw up.

This kind of attitude is why people with disabilities are treated as being subhuman without the rights that others enjoy.

Period. It is.