If the leaked SCOTUS ruling stands, in less than 60 days, women will become second-class citizens of this country. We must fight back, writes the CEO of Jewish Women International
The religious Jewish community cannot justify staying on the sidelines of the abortion debate, writes a Hasidic health care researcher.test
With the Supreme Court's conservative majority reportedly poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, many Jewish groups readied to combat the decision
The anti-abortion views are rooted in a specific Christian belief that life begins at conception and that abortion, therefore, is murder. Jews don’t believe that.
(JTA) — Jewish women mate for life. Jewish scientists invented the gas that Hitler used to kill them — and the abortion pill, and that might make them the same thing. Which is why Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize. Or something. Kentucky state Rep. Danny Bentley, a Republican, floated all these canards in…
The response to the column I wrote about my abortion story was unlike anything I’ve experienced in more than 30 years of journalism. Messages poured in via email and text, on Twitter and on Facebook, from people I’ve known forever and many I’ve never met. One woman I volunteer with at the food pantry just…
This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. I’ve been pregnant twice. I’ve had two abortions. And I have two healthy, wondrous children who recently turned 14. I used to frame my…
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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