Jessa Duggar's future father-in-law is defending the reality star's comments about abortion and the Holocaust.
After visiting the Holocaust Museum, the 21-year-old "19 Kids and Counting" star posted a controversial blog post comparing abortion to the killing of 11 million during the Holocaust.
Michael Seewald, the father of Duggar's fiancé, Ben Seewald, took to his personal blog to respond to those criticizing Duggar's comments, and revealed that he has similar thoughts about abortion and the Holocaust.
"The Holocaust was the deliberate extermination of a certain class of people," he wrote. "Those in power deemed some people to be subhuman and unwanted in society and so they gathered them up and killed them. Abortion also is the extermination of a certain class of people deemed unworthy to live. The powers that be have legalized murder just as they did during the Holocaust. Any woman who chooses to may go to an abortion clinic and have her preborn baby violently killed. The unborn are viewed as a clump of cells to be violently sucked out of their mother's womb or ripped apart limb by limb and their skulls crushed so that he or she may easily be pulled out piece by piece."
Duggar's comments caused a huge backlash online. Cosmopolitan writer, Jill Filipovic, wrote on the beauty website that Duggar was "insensitive and clueless."
"Regardless of how one feels about the morality of abortion though, comparing it to one of the greatest horrors in modern history is insensitive and clueless, to say the least," Filipovic wrote. "And the comparison wasn't a casual, thoughtless one - Jessa had just walked out of the Holocaust museum, and instead of absorbing the scale of that atrocity, decided to make a point about abortion rights. That's not just tone-deaf; it's deranged."
