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In reply to the discussion: Richard Dawkins: ‘It Would Be Immoral’ to Give Birth to A Child with Down’s Syndrome [View all]kdmorris
(5,649 posts)Could you be any more insulting?
Look, around these parts, we call them FATHERS. It is incredibly insulting to debase them to their reproductive cells... as insulting as being called breeders or incubators is to us.
I seriously hope that people reading this do not think that you speak for all women, because, as I woman, I find you to be way off base.
AtheistCrusader may never be pregnant, but he can be (is?) a father. Parenting a child is not the exclusive purview of women.
And without the ability to try to imagine ourselves in someone else's shoes, we will never develop empathy. The truth of the matter is that, male or female, NO ONE knows what they will do until they are in that situation.
It is an extremely complex matter and AtheistCrusader is not saying what anyone SHOULD do...just what he thinks he would do based on his knowledge of himself. It is not offensive to have men think and have an opinon about these things, as long as they don't try to dictate to us what we are supposed to do. After all, we need all the allies we can get at this point.