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Richard Dawkins disgusting tweet on unborn babies with Down Syndrome
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" "Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice."
Quoting: jimboman  I'm afraid so. If it's a fetus lacking the capacity for thought, reason, the ability to feel pain or understand that it exists at all, terminating the pregnancy hurts no one. Once it becomes a sentient human being capable of thought, feeling, emotion, etc., it will always understand then the real torture begins. Don't give me the crap about how wonderful and happy children with Down's that are already born are - that is irrelevant. No one is suggesting that you kill a sentient child or take back a life already aware of its existence - just that to prevent pain is better than allowing it to happen with full awareness that it is going to and doing nothing. We are talking about probabilities. Not killing sentient humans. Dawkins is correct. We don't mourn the 50% of all fertilized eggs that end in miscarriage naturally, there's no need to consider an embryo or fetus the equal of a born, sentient human. Considering that humans don't remember anything until they are about 2, how would anyone know if a "fetus" has feelings or not? The nervous system begins developing in the first month of pregnancy. I swear its like some people value the life of a plant more than an unborn human simply because a plant is self-sustaining and its existence doesn't inconvenience them financially or physically. Scientifically speaking, a human life begins at the moment of conception when a growing organism with a unique set of DNA that will never exist again in the history of the universe comes into existence, albeit inside the mother's womb, as is necessary considering a human embryo is microscopic-sized when it's life begins.
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