Viewpoint: Dawkins has done us a favour by highlighting how dangerous our culture of ‘choice’ really is

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If a world cleansed of imperfections is what we wish for, then Dawkins, with his Down’s Syndrome outburst, has shown us the way - Max Wind-Cowie writes in his Catholic Herald blog this week.

Richard Dawkins is not ‘pro-choice’. I know, it surprised me too. Turns out that atheism’s high priest thinks abortion isn’t just a ‘right’ or an ‘option’ – he thinks it’s an obligation. “Abort it. And try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world,” the professor told one of his Twitter cultists when asked what the right thing to do would be should they discover their unborn child has Down’s Syndrome. Charming, eh?

... what is interesting about Dawkins’ outburst is how neatly it illustrates the imbalance in how we talk about questions of the body and morality in society.

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