The Holocaust

The Holocaust is unique in its horror, and to compare anything to it is to diminish the actual atrocities the victims endured. There is no greater insult to those victims, especially when it comes from a generation so far removed from Nazi Germany. Some people can’t fathom the significance of the insult they so cheerfully throw around. Those who died in the Holocaust were fully human and independent persons who were conscious of themselves, others, and their surroundings. With abortion, the life that dies is an embryo or fetus, on the road to becoming a person but not there yet, not able to feel pain, not aware of its surroundings, and not able to think. Further the fetus and embryo are physically linked to the woman whereas those who were murdered during the Holocaust were independent in this regards. The U.S. government also does not mandate that women have abortions, as the Third Reich ordered the extermination of Jews and other classes of people. The systematic slaughter of an entire race of people connected by characteristics, community and culture is actually 180 degrees the opposite of randomly unconnected women choosing to exercise their legal right to terminate a pregnancy that they neither want nor can emotionally or financially support. These are significant differences. Significant enough that I do not see how one can rationally compare the Holocaust to abortion. Genocide is not a one-size fits all term. Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a people, and the Holocaust was a transgression against humanity which has never been equaled. Nothing in America can be compared to the Holocaust; not taxes, not the president’s bills and not abortions.