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Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’

Posted on | November 14, 2013 | 65 Comments

This is crazy. In the comments on an earlier post, somebody linked an article at RH Realty Check, a site that is pro-abortion with the monomaniacal zeal of a Chinese Communist Party “family planning” commissar. I mean, Amanda Marcotte is moderate by comparison.

“RH” stands for “Reproductive Health,” which is progressive code for KILL YOUR BABY NOW and this is from their “About Us” page:

We enjoyed the support of the UN Foundation and the editorial independence entrusted to us for six years, from 2006-2012. In January 2012 we officially became our own independent 501c3 non-for-profit organization.

OK, now I understand: The UN Foundation was something zero-population-growth zealot Ted Turner donated a bunch of money to, back when Ted was banging Jane Fonda and before the Time/Warner/AOL merger devastated his fortune. So that makes sense.

Anyway, somebody linked an RH Reality Check article in the comments and, while the article itself wasn’t particularly interesting, I noticed that on the sidebar they had this link:

TLC: It’s time to cancel the Duggars’ show,
“19 Kids and Counting,” and stop rewarding
misuse of the history of the Holocaust.

WTF? They’re campaigning against a reality TV show because of the Holocaust? I mean, Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo is a crime against humanity as far as I’m concerned, but why would anyone invoke the Holocaust to argue for the cancellation of the Duggars?

Turns out that, during last month’s Value Voters Summit, Jim Bob Duggar referenced the Holocaust in explaining the importance of civic involvement, and various lefties complained.

Period. End of sentence.

Look, if the Left mounted an online petition every time a pro-lifer compared abortion to the Holocaust, the entire Internet would be full of nothing else but those petitions. Whether or not the analogy is fair or offensive is entirely irrelevant to the fact that such comparisons are routine in pro-life rhetoric, and therefore the question is, “Why this belated umbrage by RH Reality Check?”

Did I mention that they are a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit? And did you happen to notice that we’re about seven weeks from the end of the year? Long story short: It’s a fund-raising gimmick.

With the end of the calendar year approaching, RH Reality Check wants to attract tax-deductible contributions creating the impression that “We’re Doing Something,” and taking on an “issue” with celebrity-name-value is one way to get some free publicity. An excerpt from a recent RH Reality Check article:

Jill Stanek whipped out a dictionary to argue about whether or not Holocaust references are appropriate when talking about abortion, after anti-choice celebrities Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar did just that.
Consider this phrase again from Jim Bob’s speech at this year’s Values Voter Summit that Stanek is defending, as he relayed an anecdote about a visit to a concentration camp: “That’s where we’re at in our nation.” . . .
While it’s only implied in their passive-voice arguments that hesitate to name a perpetrator, you can’t have a calculated mass murder without the calculating mass murderers. So who are the people engineering what anti-choice thought leaders describe as a Nazi-style mass murder happening now in the United States?
In sum, I think Jill Stanek just called me a Nazi. And she called you one, too, if you believe a pregnant person has the right to decide the outcome of her pregnancy, or if you are among the roughly one in three women who has exercised her constitutionally protected right to have an abortion. If she means what she says, we’re all deserving of a Nuremberg trial.

What’s important about that article is not the quote from Jim Bob Duggar or the mention of pro-life blogger Jill Stanek. What’s really important is the byline on the article:

by Natasha Chart,
Director of Campaigns and Fundraising,
RH Reality Check

Oh, fundraising. In other words, RH Reality Check is hustling a buck by trying to get the Duggars off TV. Not what I’d call a philanthropic or charitable endeavor, but then again, I don’t consider killing babies a “constitutionally protected right,” either.

 

Category: Abortion

Comments

65 Responses to “Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’”

  1. Citzcom
    November 14th, 2013 @ 6:44 pm

    Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’: This is crazy. In the comments o… http://t.co/EPcVHbo180

  2. rsmccain
    November 14th, 2013 @ 6:49 pm

    “I mean, ‘Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo’ is a crime against humanity as far as I’m concerned …” http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ @EdDriscoll @jtLOL #tcot

  3. Red__Rover
    November 14th, 2013 @ 6:50 pm

    Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’ http://t.co/bNgyzovGdS via @feedly

  4. rsmccain
    November 14th, 2013 @ 6:52 pm

    Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’ http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ cc @JillStanek @StevenErtelt #prolife

  5. mite72
    November 14th, 2013 @ 6:53 pm

    RT @Red__Rover: Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’ http://t.co/bNgyzovGdS via @feedly

  6. MarkG_03
    November 14th, 2013 @ 6:55 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’ http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ cc @JillStanek @StevenErt…

  7. rsmccain
    November 14th, 2013 @ 6:55 pm

    “RH” stands for “Reproductive Health,” which is progressive code for KILL YOUR BABY NOW http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ | @NatashaChart @JillStanek

  8. PurpleKoolaid92
    November 14th, 2013 @ 6:57 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’ http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ cc @JillStanek @StevenErt…

  9. Illiberalality
    November 14th, 2013 @ 6:58 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “RH” stands for “Reproductive Health,” which is progressive code for KILL YOUR BABY NOW http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ | @NatashaChar…

  10. InaudibleNoise
    November 14th, 2013 @ 6:59 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’ http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ cc @JillStanek @StevenErt…

  11. Gooms
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:00 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’ http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ cc @JillStanek @StevenErt…

  12. rsmccain
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:02 pm

    Hey, have you guys blogged about this? http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ @AceofSpadesHQ @rdbrewer4 @Maetenloch @DrewMTips

  13. Dana
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:07 pm

    Holocaust references by pro-life groups are inappropriate. After all, the Holocaust killed only six million people, and is nowhere in our abortuaries’ league when it comes to dealing out death.

  14. Dana_TFSJ
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:09 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Hey, have you guys blogged about this? http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ @AceofSpadesHQ @rdbrewer4 @Maetenloch @DrewMTips

  15. rsmccain
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:10 pm

    Y’all blogged this story yet? http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ I just noticed it today. @BillyHallowell @gatewaypundit @proteinwisdom @texasbryanp

  16. rdbrewer4
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:12 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Hey, have you guys blogged about this? http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ @AceofSpadesHQ @rdbrewer4 @Maetenloch @DrewMTips

  17. sokeijarhead
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:12 pm

    Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’ : The Other McCain http://t.co/IDwQjvS5ug

  18. texasbryanp
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:13 pm

    Cah-razy RT @rsmccain: Y’all blogged this story yet? http://t.co/4WI1I4Y4rQ I just noticed it today.

  19. rsmccain
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:13 pm

    Hey @AmPowerBlog @lonelycon @DaleyGator @DaTechGuyblog @BobBelvedere have you blogged this story yet? http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ #prolife

  20. rsmccain
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:21 pm

    Hey, @RickSantorum, know you’re busy, but they’re going after the Duggars: http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ cc @JillStanek @CatholicLisa #prolife

  21. concern00
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:22 pm

    The irony and the hypocrisy of those that support abortion. Surely it is undeniable and scientific fact that abortion results in the killing of a living thing. I am always happy to have an intelligent debate about exactly what that thing is that they’re killing.

    If this ‘thing’ was a cuddly little animal or even a plant, would the left condone the wholesale slaughter of 50 million of those things? Lucky for them it’s only an unwanted human being.

  22. CatholicLisa
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:22 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Hey, @RickSantorum, know you’re busy, but they’re going after the Duggars: http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ cc @JillStanek @CatholicLis…

  23. Opinionatedcath
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:22 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Hey, @RickSantorum, know you’re busy, but they’re going after the Duggars: http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ cc @JillStanek @CatholicLis…

  24. Dave
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:24 pm

    “If she means what she says, we’re all deserving of a Nuremberg trial.”

    Fine by me, glad you’re finally seeing it our way.

  25. MentzelPaul
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:24 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “RH” stands for “Reproductive Health,” which is progressive code for KILL YOUR BABY NOW http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ | @NatashaChar…

  26. peacequeencat
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:37 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Hey, @RickSantorum, know you’re busy, but they’re going after the Duggars: http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ cc @JillStanek @CatholicLis…

  27. rsmccain
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:42 pm

    RT @sokeijarhead: Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’ : The Other McCain http://t.co/IDwQjvS5ug

  28. rsmccain
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:42 pm

    RT @Red__Rover: Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’ http://t.co/bNgyzovGdS via @feedly

  29. BrianKennedy8
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:43 pm

    Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’ http://t.co/9zx1IQGQbj

  30. Dana
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:45 pm

    One of my Facebook friends, a woman from my high school class, is unabashedly liberal, supports abortion, and fills Facebook with thousands of posts about rescuing dogs about to be euthanized at the pound, and how absotively, posilutely horrible that is.

  31. BeccaJLower
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:45 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’ http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ cc @JillStanek @StevenErt…

  32. Pro-only-one-choice | The First Street Journal.
    November 14th, 2013 @ 7:52 pm

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  33. Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’ | Dead Citizen's Rights Society
    November 14th, 2013 @ 8:04 pm

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  34. RS
    November 14th, 2013 @ 8:09 pm

    . . . among the roughly one in three women who has exercised her constitutionally protected right to have an abortion.

    According to this chart, she’s asserting that over 20 million women have had abortions. Yeah, I think Holocaust is a good metaphor.

  35. RS
    November 14th, 2013 @ 8:18 pm

    Actually, she’s lowballing it. It’s like we took out the population of Burma.

  36. ValVivino
    November 14th, 2013 @ 8:25 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Hey, @RickSantorum, know you’re busy, but they’re going after the Duggars: http://t.co/p4TeYWH9pJ cc @JillStanek @CatholicLis…

  37. concern00
    November 14th, 2013 @ 8:26 pm

    That would be the hypocrisy part kicking in.

  38. JeffWeimer
    November 14th, 2013 @ 8:27 pm

    Maybe Holodomor is a better reference? It might make them look up history for a change.

  39. RS
    November 14th, 2013 @ 8:36 pm

    See, “Singer, Peter. Professor of ‘Bioethics.’” Princeton University.

    According to him, there’s no moral difference.

  40. The Bearded Bastard of Babylon
    November 14th, 2013 @ 8:39 pm

    The irony is that only those of us fortunate enough to have been born even have a voice in this debate… It’s like now that they’re safe, they believe abortion is just groovy for everyone else, including the unborn!

  41. repub9989
    November 14th, 2013 @ 8:42 pm

    “Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’” http://t.co/87rY0MKcOE

  42. concern00
    November 14th, 2013 @ 8:49 pm

    Yeah the unborn really dig it!

  43. rsmccain
    November 14th, 2013 @ 9:59 pm

    RT @Citzcom: Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’: This is crazy. In the comments o… http://t.co/…

  44. DocWashburn
    November 14th, 2013 @ 10:04 pm

    RT @Citzcom: Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’: This is crazy. In the comments o… http://t.co/…

  45. JillStanek
    November 14th, 2013 @ 10:04 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’ http://t.co/ZBUQnzRNwZ cc @StevenErtelt #prolife

  46. LeatherPenguin
    November 14th, 2013 @ 10:05 pm

    Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’ http://t.co/b4rBbsOqd6

  47. Da Tech Guy On DaRadio Blog » Blog Archive » Night of the Doctor: Collected Reactions
    November 14th, 2013 @ 10:47 pm

    […] shift blame for his fail­ures to the Insur­ance indus­try (unscrupu­lous) or the attempts of pro abor­tion groups to use fem­i­nists as suck­ers (uncom­pli­cated) at DaT­e­chGuy Blog we want to focus on what really mat­ters: How the […]

  48. rsmccain
    November 14th, 2013 @ 10:49 pm

    RT @CatholicLisa: @rsmccain don’t let nobody diss no Duggars. http://t.co/AtzvmpSVBR

  49. Lisa Graas
    November 14th, 2013 @ 10:55 pm

    The point of the Holocaust references is that we believe all are created in the image of God, no matter who we are. We are united in our humanity. Both abortion and the Holocaust are instances of mass killing. I respect that a lot of people are offended but I would like to hear sound reasoning for the offense. So far, the only “reasoning” I have heard is such that denies the dignity of the unborn child. I won’t accept that reasoning as an argument against comparing abortion to the Holocaust. I would offer that those who compare the two are equating a Jewish person with a perceived innocent. Far from hostility, the reasoning of the person opposed to abortion is that a Jewish person has dignity that should be respected as equally as the dignity of a child.

  50. Pablo
    November 14th, 2013 @ 11:06 pm

    If you don’t want to be called a Nazi, cupcake, stop advocating the murder of children. You have the right to kill one person: You.