IL GOP Senator Darren Bailey Compared Abortion to the Holocaust

Senator Bailey released a video in 2017 where he made the comparisons to abortion and the Holocaust, and is refusing to back down, even claiming that he has met with Rabbis in Illinois who back his position.

“The Jewish community themselves have told me that I’m right,” Darren Bailey, a GOP state senator who is trying to unseat Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, said in a radio interview over the weekend. “All the people at the Chabads that we met with and the Jewish rabbis, they said, ‘No, you’re actually right.’”

The video in question, which resurfaced earlier this month, Bailey said that “the attempted extermination of the Jews of World War II doesn’t even compare on a shadow of the life that has been lost with abortion since its legalization.”

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who is Jewish, condemned the comparison and released the following statement:

“Darren
Bailey’s disgusting assertion that a woman determining her own
reproductive future is worse than the Nazis’ genocide of 6 million Jews
is offensive to Illinoisans everywhere,” Eliza Glezer, press secretary
for Pritzker’s campaign, said in a statement. “With violent antisemitism
on the rise and in the wake of a massacre against a predominately
Jewish Highland Park, Bailey must answer for his hateful comments.”