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The state’s attempts to encourage population growth was accompanied by tightened restrictions on birth control and abortion. The tightening of abortion regulations in the 1970s was accompanied by an
emotive call to the Jewish mothers to do their national duty and replace the Jewish children killed by the Nazis. An extreme example of this ideology was a suggestion, narrowly defeated, of the Advisor of the Minister of Health at the time, Haim Sdan, to force every woman considering an abortion to watch a slide show which would include, in addition to horrors of dead fetuses in rubbish bins, the pictures of dead children in Nazi concentration camps.^38^
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While possibly unintentional, it would have been easy to infer that people who chose abortions were comparable to Axis war criminals.
Whatever you think of abortion, I hope that we can all agree that these equivalences are simply not necessary.
The comparison is intentional. This viewpoint exists in the US, too, and the Nazi-abortion false equivalency is a popular one among various right wing sectors, mostly Christo-fascists.
When I was in high school, one of the various Christian groups allowed to operate in our public school put "informative" papers in all our lockers that made that comparison. I think they got a talking to and that was it. I never watched the film shared on the paper, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same.
Knew a guy who said Planned Parenthood was made to cull the POC population in the US. He didn't seem overtly aware that he was comparing abortion to genocide, or like a Christo-fascist. It's a pervasive force here, repackaged a thousand ways in order to convince people in every demographic or party to support it.