Russian Journalist Suggests Infanticide for Disabled Newborns

Aleksandr Nikonov wrote an article titled "Finish Them Off, So They Don't Suffer," which called "post-natal abortion" an act of mercy. Nikonov argues that the birth of a disabled child for many families would be an unbearable tragedy, “a hell”, and that “the killing of the newborn is in fact the same as an abortion." He says depriving infants, who will never be able to take care of themselves, of life is “true humanism" and calls to give parents of such children a right to euthanize their newborns in the same way the elderly are killed in euthanasia. Now, Radio Free Europe reports that Snezhana Mitina, the Russian mother of a child with a developmental disability wants to sue Nikonov. LifeNews