Cobb County Acting District Attorney John Melvin said Friday that women cannot be prosecuted under Georgia’s new abortion ban, but doctors can, and that Democratic prosecutors who say they are not going to enforce the law are like Nazis and Bull Connor.

The comparison of his Democratic colleagues to the Jim Crow South and Hitler’s Germany comes from Melvin’s view that all have denied someone’s personhood. Bull Connor and other racist law enforcement officers of the brutal segregated South denied personhood to African Americans they abused, jailed and lynched. The Nazis denied personhood to the millions of Jews they murdered. And those who have said publicly in recent days that they will not make criminal cases under the new abortion law are denying the personhood of embryos and fetuses bestowed by House Bill 481, Melvin said.