The Supreme Court is allowing Texas’s HB8 abortion ban & vigilante approach to violating citizens’ federal rights remain in place. They are signaling that they will end Roe v. Wade.
This is a First Amendment religious liberty issue. Judaism permits and sometimes requires abortion. This is because under Jewish law (1) the fetus is not a person, (2) life does not begin at conception, (3) the mother’s health takes precedence over the fetus’s at all times, and (3a) many rabbis hold that the mother’s “health” includes both physical and psychological health.
Call your senators. Ask them to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act. Our lives, bodies, and autonomy should not be subject to the whims of heartless politicians’ gleeful support of cruelty to women, girls & other folks who can become pregnant.
The issue: Since 2011, state lawmakers have passed nearly 500 abortion bans and restrictions. These oppressive laws most harm women, Black,