Jessa Duggar has taken some flak after comparing abortion to the Holocaust but one person fighting her corner is her future father-in-law.
It's always helpful to have your in-laws on your side and Ben Seewald's dad, Michael, has some words of praise for the 19 Kids and Counting star who is set to marry his son on November 1.
More than that, he pretty much shares her view.
Jessa found herself on the receiving end of criticism after she posted comments against abortion on her Instagram page.
The post followed a visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC with her fiancé Ben Seewald.
"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," she wrote on her Instagram on 26 September.
She continued:
"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.
"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."
The response from her followers was mixed, with one writing: "I've never read something this horrifying. How ignorant are you. I guess if you had actual classroom studies you would have learned about the horrible atrocities that occurred during the Holocaust."
Rather than take offence at her stance, Michael Seewald turned to his personal blog to write out a defence of her position.
He wrote:
"The Holocaust was the deliberate extermination of a certain class of people. 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 legalised 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."
He went on to echo her comparison of abortion to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany.
"In Hitler's Germany there was legal discrimination against Jews. In our society we may legally discriminate against our own children and eradicate them. Tell me how this is not the same thing. They may protest and say that the preborn are not fully human as the Jew's [sic] are, but even making that assertion makes them more like the Nazis than they want to be because that was how the Nazis viewed the Jews. The Jews were non persons in the eyes of the German government just as the preborn are to ours. Under the Nazi regime Jew's [sic] rights and humanity were not considered. The same is true of a society that condones abortion. The rights and humanity of the unborn are not regarded. The Jews were viewed as a lesser class of people to be exterminated. 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."
He concluded by reaffirming nothing but his full support for his future daughter-in-law.
"Bravo, Jessa, for daring to speak out against one of the great evils of our time even if it means that Hitler's doppelgangers are enraged," he wrote.
"Maybe this is why Rush Limbaugh calls radical feminists 'Femi-Nazis'."
