A trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum can provide a sobering experience for visitors. "19 Kids and Counting" star Jessa Duggar took her own sobering visit and politicized the tragic event on her Instagram.
Duggar compared abortion to the Nazi genocide that killed 11 million people. She posted a photo of Jewish children interned at the camps and wrote a lengthy caption that caused a stir across the web.
"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 for themselves. Because EVERY LIFE IS PRECIOUS. #ProLife," she wrote.
Duggar's comments brought condemnation from many media websites and others on social media. The Duggar daughter also found support among her Twitter fans and fellow pro-lifers who tweeted messages using the hashtag #IStandWithJessa.
Duggar matriarch Michelle also gave a similar response after their visit a few years ago. They also linked the 20th century's greatest genocide to the rate of abortions in the United States.
"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 4000 babies being killed and 4000 women being wounded each day!" Michelle wrote on her TLC blog.
Here's the full caption of Jessa Duggar's photo:
"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 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. 'If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not He that pondereth the heart consider it? and He that keepeth thy soul, doth not He know it? and shall not He render to every man according to his works?' (Proverbs 24:10-12) 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"
