Today in Religious Hypocrisy

 Jessa Duggar Seewald, of the notorious TaliBaptist Duggar clan, discovered that her fetus was not viable and got an abortion, though she calls it a Dilation and Curettage.

While a D&C has other applications, when done to terminate a pregnancy it is an abortion, period, full stop.

People magazine and other Duggar-loving publications have the story about Jessa Duggar Seewald‘s recent medical treatment, which they take pains to call anything but an abortion.

Seewald’s most recent pregnancy went south, and an ultrasound revealed the fetus did not “look good.” People magazine reports:

Due to risks of complications with passing the fetus at home, she said she decided to check in to a hospital to perform a dilation and curettage procedure to remove the fetus from her womb.

The story does not say whether a heartbeat was detected, or whether the fetus was still alive at the time of the D&C, a procedure more commonly called an abortion. Current Arkansas law allows abortions for dead fetuses, but not for living ones, regardless of their suffering or prospects for survival outside the womb.

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The Duggar family and other vehement anti-abortion conservatives helped pass a near-total abortion ban in Arkansas. Removing a living fetus is no longer legal here for any reason except to save the life and health of the mother. (Correction: current Arkansas law does NOT allow for an exception to preserve the health of the mother.)

If her maiden name had not been Duggar, she would have been forced to carry it to term, and deliver it dead, but doctors knew that because of who she was they would be at no legal jeopardy, and Jessa Duggar Seewald knew that she would spared any opprobrium because of her family.

It's because they think that the rules do not apply to them.  They think that the rules never apply to them.

The terrifying bit is that these psychopath zealots are probably right.