On my mother’s deathbed, I learned she was a pioneering reproductive rights activist
The legislation my mother fought for encouraged a wider agenda for reproductive justice than abortion
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Looking Forward ‘We don’t live in the abstract’: 3 Jewish women on the fall of Roe v. Wade
Forward editors process the reversal of 50 years of abortion access.
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Opinion Striking down Roe v. Wade will violate Jewish religious liberty
Orthodox Jewish organizations are running out of time to organize our political power and communal voice in defense of abortion laws that allow us to keep our faith.
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Opinion I’m an Orthodox med student. My community needs real sex education
“You know, halacha (Jewish law) almost never allows contraception use,” an acquaintance boldly asserted to me recently. More than factually erroneous, the statement belied a misguided attempt to fill a void. In the absence of proper education, he had formed a lopsided picture of Judaism that would inform his personal moral code. This is not…
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Opinion Women’s March Organizers Should Be More Careful About the Company They Keep
On the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, women from around the country took to the streets to protest the election and rhetoric of the new President. Women met on the streets of their own towns and cities across the country and around the world, and they traveled from far and wide to protest in Washington…
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Life Mandatory Fetus-Funerals Coming to Texas
New rules in Texas — not proposed rules or rules speculated in the abstract in a philosophy seminar, but actual, real-life rules — require medical facilities that perform abortions to treat fetal tissue as dead bodies, either burying or cremating the tissue in question. A chilling sentence from Tracy Clark-Flory’s Vocativ piece on the story…
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Opinion Hillary Clinton and the Jewish Imperative to Protect Reproductive Rights
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. Throughout the presidential campaign, we’ve had many reminders of where the two candidates stand on the issues of women’s health and reproductive rights. The contrast could not be clearer. Hillary Clinton has been a champion for women’s rights throughout her…
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Opinion Whoever is Elected, Roe v. Wade is Unlikely to Change. Here’s Why.
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. Despite the fact that Roe v. Wade has been the law of the land for 43 years, access to abortion is still one of the major issues impacting many Americans’ vote during Presidential election years. On the Left, voters refuse…
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