Days ago, 19-Kids-and-Counting Alum Jessa Duggar Seewald revealed that she suffered a miscarriage and had a procedure to remove the lifeless baby from her womb. Her dishonest critics have capitalized on her heartache, accusing her of having an abortion, something she’s been militantly against, to remove the dead child from inside her.
Seewald, a Christian who can routinely be found quoting Charles Spurgeon (and who she named her son after), revealed the tragic story in a video while thanking the Lord and praising him for his goodness even in her pain and loss.
As soon as she started taking a look at the baby I could tell there was some concern in her voice. She said “well the sack looks good, the baby does not.” Honestly nothing could have prepared me for the weight of those words in that moment. I had really allowed myself to become so hopeful because the spotting had stopped. At that moment I was just in complete shock I didn’t even have words.
I just immediately started crying and I was so, so thankful in that moment that I had not gone to the appointment by myself because I almost did. And Ben was there and he put his arms around me and the technician went out and just said she was going to give us some space for a moment. And just trying to process through the loss, sitting there and holding hands and crying and what do we do from here.
She continues:
I ended up having to go see my doctor and because my history of hemorrhaging and all of that, there was concern that if I tried to just take something or pass the baby at home that I might have trouble and have to be transported and all that. It just wasn’t something that seemed like a very good option and so we decided to go to the hospital, get checked in there, and go through the process of a D&C.
It was a difficult experience. Before getting checked into the hospital I just had a moment like by myself to just think about the weight of the situation and what had happened and start to process. And in that moment I was thinking of Job and how when he lost everything that he held dear, his kids, everything, in that moment he was still able to say ‘God is good.’
…it’s hard but we do know the truth that God is good and he does care for us. And so I remember reciting those words of Job it says” the Lord gives and the Lord takes away and blessed be the name of the Lord” and I was able to thank God in that moment for giving us this life, even if we would never be able to hold this baby in our arms.”
In response to the video, her critics have claimed this procedure to remove a loved and cherished lifeless baby in the womb is analogous to butchering a perfectly healthy and vibrant child, roasting her for her supposed hypocrisy in missives that have been seen millions of times.
It is ignorance at its most ignoble and an abhorrent comparison, and we ask that everyone pray for our sister in Christ and her family.
