What does Jewish law say about abortion?
Like most questions of halacha, it depends on who you ask.
Roe v. Wade
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Fast Forward A new campaign will fight for abortion rights — Jewishly
The CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women has been telling people for months that Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that legalized abortion nationally, would likely be overturned within the year. “They would say ‘that’s not going to happen,’” said Sheila Katz, whose group has long made access to abortion one of its…
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Fast Forward Trump Nominee Jeffrey Rosen Won’t Say If He Supports Brown v. Board
Jeffrey Rosen, President Trump’s nominee for deputy attorney general, refused to answer when asked by the Senate whether he approved of the outcome of Brown v. Board of Education, the Daily Beast reported. Rosen was facing the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing on Wednesday when Senator Richard Blumenthal grilled him on Brown v….
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Opinion We’re Still Having the Wrong Conversation About Roe v. Wade
Forty-five years ago today, the United States Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, affirmed that a woman’s right to an abortion was protected by the U.S. Constitution. The decision gave total autonomy to women to terminate a pregnancy during the first trimester, and prevented states from interfering in that right. But — and this is…
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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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Opinion Remembering My Abortion Every Yom Kippur
My cisgender male partner of seven years and I had sex, and the condom we were using for safer sex and birth control broke. Within the hour, we called our friend who was a nurse practitioner at the Feminist Women’s Health Clinic and got a prescription for Plan B (a prescription was needed at that…
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Opinion A Law Student’s Brutal Dilemma
I was married and in my third year of law school when I had my first abortion. I wasn’t using the pill because physicians were warning women that the pill increased a woman’s chance of having breast cancer. I was using a diaphragm and spermicide. I got pregnant in the first semester of my last…
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Opinion Double Jeopardy for One Teenager
I am 56 years old, a wife, mother and soon-to-be grandmother. I’ve just retired from a joyful career as a teacher’s assistant in an elementary school in Georgia. This wonderful life of mine was made possible by two abortions in my teens. My first abortion was as a ninth grader. None of the adults in…
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