Prague - A senior university lecturer and Czech government adviser has been forced to resign for proposing to legalise euthanasia for children born with birth defects.
In his recent article published in the Journal of Medical Law and Bioethics, Miroslav Mitloehner argued that “it makes no sense to prolong the life of a baby born as a monster.”
Mitloehner called disabled children “freaks” and questioned whether they are human beings. He said doctors should be allowed to terminate their life without parents' consent.
Vaclav Krasa, the chairman of a major organisation of the disabled, called the views unacceptable, comparing them to “Nazi thinking.”
Officials said on Friday Mitloehner was fired from the post of director of the Institute of Social Work at Hradec Kralove University and from the Labor Ministry's scientific council. - Sapa-AP