The world's leading atheist displays his compassionate side and endorses the moral standards of the Third Reich.

"In a bizarre rant on Twitter earlier today, atheist Richard Dawkins wrote that choosing not to abort a child with Down Syndrome would be "immoral."

The conversation started when Dawkins tweeted that "Ireland is a civilised country except in this 1 area." The area was abortion, which until last year was illegal in all cases.

A Twitter user then asked Dawkins if "994 human beings with Down's Syndrome [having been] deliberately killed before birth in England and Wales in 2012" was "civilised."

Dawkins replied "yes, it is very civilised. These are fetuses, diagnosed before they have human feelings."...

Later, Dawkins said that "the question is not ‘is it 'human'?’ but ‘can it SUFFER?’"

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breakin...n-syndrome-is-i

That last, "can it suffer", is pretty much the same kind of argument put forth by German medical authorities in the 20s to justify what later became the Nazi policy of eliminating "useless eaters". They would be far happier dead.

OTOH, Dawkins may be morally stunted but is he so out of the mainstream?

"It is estimated that in many Western countries the abortion rate of children diagnosed in utero with Down syndrome is 90%, or even higher. The development of new and more accurate tests for the condition has raised concerns among Down syndrome advocates that that number could rise even higher."

Sieg heil.