While I don’t agree with Dawkins, I find his opinion was stated mildly with lots of room for doubt and, in his words, "needs to be argued further, possibly to be withdrawn".

Furthermore, early abortion seems to me to be not much worse than an unsuccessful insemination and the choice is not much different than avoiding a pregnancy. So the decision to early-abort does not hurt anyone and gives potential parents a choice.

Personally, I’ve met a lot of Down’s syndrome people because my mother runs a non-profit school for them. They are regular people who need special help. Some are vain (really), some are aggressive, many are happy, and I found a widespread high level of love which I personally value most. However, I’m very much into cerebral things and do not enjoy spending too much time with them. Nevertheless, if I had a child with Down’s syndrome, I would love and nurture them a lot and no differently than the children I have now.

We, humans, judge too much and our imagination and identities can’t seem to expand enough to allow and accept sufficient ‘difference’ between ourselves and even our own children and I’m not talking about Down’s syndrome only.

Finally, I like Dawkins and yes, I like his book "The God Delusion". I think, because the author is a Christian, her motivation for the article may be, to adapt Shakespeare: "not because she loves Down’s syndrome people more but because she loves Dawkins less".