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Dominic Lawson
May 31, 2021 6:50 PM ET
The organisation Don t Screen Us Out which campaigns against programmes designed to facilitate the elimination of unborn children with Down s Syndrome has launched a petition demanding that the professor s publisher, Penguin Random House, end their business relationship with Richard Dawkins and stop publishing his books .
Currently, the 80-year-old is actively promoting his latest work, Books Do Furnish A Life (actually nothing more than a collection of old essays).
In an interview with the broadcaster Brendan O Connor of RTE Radio in Ireland, Dawkins attempted to defend how he had responded in 2014 when one of his 2.9 million Twitter followers sent this to him: I honestly don t know what I would do if I were pregnant with a kid with Down Syndrome. Real ethical dilemma.
DOMINIC LAWSON: Cancel culture has arrived for Professor Richard Dawkins, possibly the nation s greatest science writer, as Don t Screen Us Out has launched a petition against him.
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