Yes It does. Both abortion and euthanasia come out of the same "Enlightenment" philosophy (of French origin of course
GARBAGE usually is) that says that the Bible is not the revelation of God, that man is just another animal and therfore that there is no special sanctitity to human life.
By the way the French were actually a little more humane than what is going on now with the "Enlightenment" death culture. They used to DROWN their "useless eaters" in their "Enlightenment" spawned revolution not STARVE and DEHYDRATE them.
"...Both abortion and euthanasia come out of the same 'Enlightenment' philosophy..."
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/printerfriendly.php "...In his 1997 book, "Origins of Nazi Genocide", Henry Friedlander documented the Nazi programme of euthanasia, called T4, that began with the collusion of the medical establishment and the courts, starting in the early thirties.
Disabled rights activists are attempting to create the same level of awareness of the rising trend towards killing the disabled in our own time, in modern hospitals, using exactly the same Nazi-style rhetoric of "mercy killing" as justification. The language of "mercy" is used constantly by Michael Schiavo who has been trying for ten years to have his disabled wife Terri killed by starvation by the removal of a feeding tube, the only "life support" she needs.
Alex Schadenberg, director of Canada's Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, said that the dehumanizing of victims is the first step in the euthanasia process. "It is no surprise that Tracy Latimer's symptoms were always described in terminology used for animals in pain. Robert Latimer was praised and defended as noble and compassionate for having gassed her."
Similarly eugenic abortions are spoken of as "curing diseases" and at times 'merciful' procedures. The link between the Nazi eugenics movement and the abortion movement is more than ideological. Planned Parenthood foundress Margaret Sanger shared her eugenic ideals with the Nazi's in the early 1930s. Due to the negative press over her association with the Nazi's Sanger changed the name of her organization from the Birth Control League to Planned Parenthood..."
"Enlightenment" philosophy Lets not get personal. Our founding fathers were children of the Enlightenment, especially Jefferson and Franklin. By the way the enlightenment was a reaction against the Dark Ages. I guess you preffered those days?