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

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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.

 

65 comments

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. “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.

  4. 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.

  7. . . . 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.

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

    According to him, there’s no moral difference.

  12. 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!

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

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