To the Editor:

In response to the Feb. 1 article, "Frankfort rally to highlight the 'holocaust' of abortion":

As an organization committed to protect the memory and legacy of those murdered in the Holocaust, we take umbrage when people use Holocaust analogies to promote their particular political views.

While Holocaust analogies generate headlines and get attention, they do little in the service of truth, history or memory. When commentary writer Melissa Jones says that abortion makes the Holocaust appear "mild" in comparison, she, knowingly or unknowingly, undermines the historical truth of the Holocaust as a singular event in human history.

Statements of this variety are offensive and betray a fundamental lack of understanding of the nature of the Holocaust.

As the ranks of Holocaust survivors recede every day, and with some world leaders still attempting to paint the Holocaust as fiction, we need to reject false comparisons to genocide and adopt a more civil tone in our national dialogue.