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

[d_r]

225. Again.

I don't care what a person decides to do with their own body.

It's not my business.

For whatever reason a woman decides her life is or is not going to fit with her choice I don't have any business in it.

If a woman wants to have an abortion because she doesn't want a baby with blue eyes it is none of my business. Just as it is none of my business if someone decides they don't want to adopt a black baby, or a boy, or whatever. Maybe they feel like they can't handle it, maybe they don't feel like they have the resources or knowledge, or maybe they just feel like it isn't for them, whatever, it isn't my business.

The prejudice isn't the decision, or even talking about the reasons for the decision for that matter, the prejudice is generalizing about a group of people based on their disability.

So when a person says it is immoral to adopt a black child, or to have a blue eyed baby, or whatever, when a person says that members of group X are inferior, that is prejudice.

SO. If the woman goes around publicly spreading prejudiced statements about a whole group of people because she feels they are inferior, then I am disturbed by her statements. If she has had an abortion or not doesn't inoculate her from that, but the issue isn't her having the abortion it is spreading prejudice. I don't care what she did or why, I do care when she goes around spreading prejudice.

Unfortunately many people do not seem to even recognize this prejudice.