Jessa Duggar compares abortion to Holocaust

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Jessa Duggar from 19 Kids & Counting was criticized after comparing abortions to the genocide of the Holocaust while visiting Washington, D.C., in September.

Duggar and her fiance, Ben Seewald, were visiting the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum during their tour of the city when she posted to Instagram a picture of children of the Holocaust with the caption comparing the murder of nearly 6 million Jews to terminating a pregnancy.

She also implied that racism was caused by evolution.

"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.' ... 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."

The assertion is not unique to Duggar. The family patriarch, Jim Duggar, said he had he same thought when he visited the museum.