This may be related to the recent controversy over RMS at the FSF foundation:
https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix.html
In 2015 and 2016 RMS made three posts on his website about Down’s syndrome.
- He recommended that, should someone find out they are pregnant and the child tests positive for Down’s syndrome “the right course of action for the woman is to terminate the pregnancy.”
- He referred to people deciding to “carry fetuses with Down’s syndrome to term” as “perverse” and said that there is “nothing virtuous” in “[increasing] the number of people that have Down’s syndrome.”
- He also said that “when a fetus has Down’s syndrome, you should abort it and try again.”
- On at least one occasion RMS likened having a child with Down’s syndrome to having a pet.
The whole point of the pro-choice movement is to allow the woman to make her own decision. This is a really common choice, recommended by most medical staff (see other comments). Stating this opinion (even as a man) should not be more controversial than the typical abortion, which I presume is not for fetal abnormalities.
Presenting your choice as the only moral option is rude.
Comparing people to animals is horrible.
https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix.html
In 2015 and 2016 RMS made three posts on his website about Down’s syndrome.
- He recommended that, should someone find out they are pregnant and the child tests positive for Down’s syndrome “the right course of action for the woman is to terminate the pregnancy.”
- He referred to people deciding to “carry fetuses with Down’s syndrome to term” as “perverse” and said that there is “nothing virtuous” in “[increasing] the number of people that have Down’s syndrome.”
- He also said that “when a fetus has Down’s syndrome, you should abort it and try again.”
- On at least one occasion RMS likened having a child with Down’s syndrome to having a pet.
The whole point of the pro-choice movement is to allow the woman to make her own decision. This is a really common choice, recommended by most medical staff (see other comments). Stating this opinion (even as a man) should not be more controversial than the typical abortion, which I presume is not for fetal abnormalities.
Presenting your choice as the only moral option is rude.
Comparing people to animals is horrible.