Notoriously Pro-Life Duggar Family Member Jessa Duggar Reveals She Had Miscarriage & Life-Saving Abortion Procedure in New Video, Internet Responds

Jessa Duggar Seewald of the Duggar Family is speaking out.

The 30-year-old 19 Kids and Counting reality TV alum recently opened up in a YouTube video about her recent medical treatment, explaining that she had a miscarriage.

She said in the video that she became concerned after “spotting” blood early in her pregnancy, and she and her family sang the hymn “Day by Day” to cheer her up.

During an ultrasound, Jessa explained the fetus did not “look good.”

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“I feel like in some ways miscarriages can be so jarring because you don’t have clear signs of something going wrong. I had minimal spotting for 24 hours, and that was it,” she explained.

Jessa said she ultimately decided to check in to a hospital to perform a dilation and curettage procedure to remove the fetus from her womb, and that the D&C was deemed medically necessary given her history of hemorrhaging.

Doctors were concerned about letting her “take something that would let [her] pass the baby at home,” citing a list of potential health risks that she decided “wasn’t something that seemed like a viable option.”

The dilation and curettage procedure is a minor surgical procedure done to remove tissue from a person’s uterus used in abortion care, and done for those who suffered a miscarriage or with unexplained bleeding between menstrual periods.

“Those 10 to 15 minutes before I was taken back to the room where Ben and my mom were waiting were probably some of the hardest in my life, just laying there feeling so alone,” she explained.

She and husband Ben Seewald have four children — sons Spurgeon, 7, and Henry, 6, and daughters Ivy, 3, and Fern, 18 months.

The Duggar family has been vehemently pro-life amid the passage of a near-total abortion ban in Arkansas, as the Arkansas Times points out.

On June 24, 2022, Arkansas began enforcing its trigger ban, prohibiting abortions at all stages of pregnancy, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Women in other states in America have been affected by making abortion access less available and/or prohibited, even in life-threatening situations.

There have been cases of women being forced to carry dead fetuses as well due to abortion bans.

The Internet has since had a strong reaction to the news, pointing out the blatant hypocrisy as women in other states are affected by serious, life-saving medical decisions requiring access to abortion procedures.

See some of the reactions…