Friday, May 4, 2012

Vatican Paper:Euthanasia Is Similar to Nazi Sham; Extermination Can Be Justified by Use of Eugenics

Proponents of euthanasia and aborting chronically ill fetuses use the same arguments that were once used by the Nazis to promote their eugenics program of mass extermination, according to the Vatican's semiofficial newspaper.

The article appears on the front page of Saturday's (May 5, 2012) issue of L'Osservatore Romano and is signed by Lucetta Scaraffia, an Italian historian who is a frequent contributor to the Vatican paper, according to the Huffington Post website.

Scaraffia's article comes in the wake of the Italian translation of a 1920 book by two German scholars -- Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche -- that set the ideological foundations for the Nazi program of extermination of disabled and incurably sick people.

Scaraffia argues that this mentality can still be seen in the "writings of many contemporary bioethicists, and of many politicians who support legislative proposals of a euthanasic type."

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