Mike Huckabee equated abortion in the U.S. to the Holocaust and his extremist supporters have claimed that abortion is even worse than the holocaust.
It was late last month that former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a Republican presidential hopeful and a Baptist minister, addressed the Values Voter Summit organized by the conservative Family Research Council.
At one point, Huckabee noted that "Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our work force."
"It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our work force had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973."
Huckabee was put in his place by the director of the Anti Defamation League.
"The Holocaust was a unique tragedy in human history - an attempt by the Nazis to exterminate the Jewish people that led to the deliberate murder of six million Jews. We find the use of analogies to the Holocaust in other contexts deeply painful, disturbing and offensive.
"Such analogies can only trivialize and diminish the horror," Foxman wrote, "and cause further pain to Holocaust survivors and to those alive today who lost friends and loved ones."
However, Gary Bauer, right-wing Republican Christian extremist, would not let it rest and took the anti-abortion insanity even further.
In a review of the incident in the current edition of the Forward newspaper, a spokeswoman for evangelical leader Gary Bauer's Campaign for Working Families takes a different view of Huckabee's statement.
Following the logic of spokeswoman Kristi Hamrick, there is, in fact, a significant difference between the two holocausts: the holocaust of abortion is worse:
"Among pro-lifers, both events are seen as tragic, but the death toll now from abortion is between 40 and 50 million in the United States since 1973. Now that's a huge number of people who are dead and gone."