Richard Dawkins issues 'weaksauce' apology to women who don't abort babies with Down syndrome

Last week, noted atheist Richard Dawkins ignited a firestorm of criticism when he tweeted to a woman who asked theoretically if she found she were pregnant with a baby with Down syndrome that she should “abort it and try again,” adding that “it would be immoral to bring it into the world.”

Today, Dawkins apologized for impugning the morality of those women who carry their children with Down syndrome to term.

I apologise for impugning the morality of the approximately ten percent of women who deliberately choose NOT to abort a Down's fetus.

— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) August 25, 2014

https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/503890694822690816

@RichardDawkins Richard; put a sock in it.

— Ozzy (@Ozzy8491) August 25, 2014

https://twitter.com/johnmayoguy/status/503891759425150978

I apologize for once thinking of you as an intellectual when you are really an obliviously arrogant bigot. Will not repeat @richarddawkins

— Steven Walsh (@DeusExJuice) August 26, 2014

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