Duggar '19 Kids & Counting' News: Jessa Duggar Compares Abortion to Holocaust
Jessa Duggar, the 21-year-old reality TV star of "19 Kids & Counting," has spoken out against abortion, comparing it to the Holocaust, the genocide that happened during World War II which, according to historians, killed about 11 million people.
Jessa recently visited the Holocaust museum during a trip to Washington, D.C. on Friday, together with her fiancé Ben Seewald.
Moments later, Jessa shared a photo on her Instagram account with this caption: "I walked through the Holocaust Museum again today... very sobering. Millions of innocents denied the most basic and fundamental of all rights--their right to life. One human destroying the life of another deemed 'less than human.'
"Racism, stemming from the evolutionary idea that man came from something less than human; that some people groups are 'more evolved' and others 'less evolved.' A denying that our Creator–GOD–made us human from the beginning, all of ONE BLOOD and ONE RACE, descendants of Adam. The belief that some human beings are 'not fit to live.' So they're murdered. Slaughtered. Kids with Down syndrome or other disabilities. The sickly. The elderly," the engaged TV star went on.
"The sanctity of human life varies not in sickness or health, poverty or wealth, elderly or pre-born, little or lots of melanin [making you darker or lighter skinned], or any other factor."
After quoting Proverbs 24:10-12, Jessa added, "May we never sit idly by and allow such an atrocity to happen again. Not this generation. We must be a voice for those who cannot speak up for themselves. Because EVERY LIFE IS PRECIOUS. #ProLife."
Her post immediately drew negative feedbacks from abortion supporters on Instagram. One of them retorted: "The fact that she just compared the genocide of hundreds of thousands to terminating a pregnancy is actually disgusting."
Adrian Gregorich of the Sentinel Project, a non-profit organization based in Canada whose mission is to prevent the crime of genocide worldwide, explained that the unborn as a group do not fall into any of the categories described by the Genocide Convention, which sets the world standard for assessing genocide.
"But by equating a health and moral issue with geopolitical violence, the juxtaposition of graphic images of aborted fetuses with those of the Rwandan genocide or the Holocaust confuses people, manipulates them emotionally, and hinders intelligent dialogue about the issues," Gregorich said.
He said linking aborted fetuses to the victims of genocide inadvertently links mothers who chose to abort their pregnancy to the perpetrators of genocide. "This assertion is false and discriminatory towards women," Gregorich said. "The motive of a woman who seeks to end an unwanted pregnancy can hardly be compared to the motives of the Nazis and their collaborators who were responsible for the Holocaust."
Moreover, he said, "Many, if not most, abortions are carried out in consideration of a woman's or family's welfare, not in hate toward the unborn fetus."
"Medical workers who support abortions are not executioners and murderers, but people who, for the most part, are concerned for the health of women and are committed to reducing the risk of this procedure," Gregorich added.
This was not the first time that Jessa had been criticized for her conservative posts in social media. Last week she also drew invectives when she spoke out about atheism.
In that post, Jessa wrote: "Atheism - the belief that there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for no reason what so ever into self-replicating bits which then turned into dinosaurs. Makes perfect sense."
Jessa's mother, Michelle Duggar, also shared similar views on her blog last year. Michelle wrote: "A couple of weeks after we went to the Holocaust Museum It dawned on us that there is a holocaust taking place right here in America! More than 56 million lives have been destroyed in our country! That is over 4,000 babies being killed and 4,000 women being wounded each day!" she argued.
"We talked and prayed about what our family could do to make a difference in saving the lives of the unborn."