By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:17 EST, 5 May 2012 | UPDATED: 11:40 EST, 5 May 2012 The Vatican's semi-official newspaper has angered supporters of euthanasia and abortions by suggesting they apply the same justifications that were used by the Nazis to champion their murderous eugenics programme. The controversial claim that they believe in the survival of the fittest concept, was made in an article on the front page of today's issue of L'Osservatore RomanO. It was published in response to the recent Italian translation of a 1920 book  titled Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Living, by two German scholars, Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche.
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Article argues Nazi values can be seen in the 'writings of many contemporary bioethicists, and of many politicians'
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Accusations have angered pro-choice supporters
The book she is discussing set the agenda for the @placeholder programme of extermination -  they believed that select people did not have the right to survive, such as disabled or terminally ill patients.