Posted on 06/18/2022 9:31:21 AM PDT by Morgana
Think about the relationship between faith and abortion, at least in the United States, and you might conjure up images of prayer circles at the March for Life, or protesters outside clinics, or a priest giving a sermon on the sanctity of life. Religion is often associated with an anti-abortion stance in the American popular imagination—and white Evangelicals have been encouraging that connection for decades. Now those efforts are culminating in the most disastrous year for abortion access since Roe v. Wade was decided 49 years ago, and in the Supreme Court’s likely reversal of Roe. But many of us working to protect the right to abortion are doing so because of our religious commitments, not despite them.
I’m a rabbi and a scholar in residence at the National Council of Jewish Women, which fights to preserve the right to abortion and expand access to the procedure. Our organization’s Rabbis for Repro network includes more than 1,800 Jewish clergy of every denomination committed to supporting abortion access for all. My activism is grounded both in Jewish law and in my tradition’s understanding of our profound commitments to one another.
A story from the Book of Exodus, part of the Hebrew Bible, forms the backbone of Judaism’s formal take on abortion. Two people are fighting; one accidentally pushes someone who is pregnant, causing a miscarriage. The text outlines the consequences: If only a miscarriage happens, the harm doer is obligated to pay financial damages. If, however, the pregnant person dies, the case is treated as manslaughter. The meaning is clear: The fetus is regarded as potential life, rather than actual life.
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Some Jews have a long history of worshiping Molech and Ba’al
Only a satan worshipper would have abortion as part of their religion. It is evil.
What a load of total rubbish. How much are they paying this moron to spew out this garbage?
Sounds exactly like Pelosi from earlier this week.
The very definition of a pagan animal.
Methinks the lady doth protest... too much.
Nat Hentoff was an atheist, with a Jewish background. Although not a practicing Jew, he was very concerned with anti-semitism. He was a civil libertarian with generally Liberal views, and he was completely against abortion in all circumstances because he believed in human rights (which also figured into his concern for anti-semitism).
The fetus is alive, it is genetically unique, and it is demonstrably human. You have a living human individual there, no matter how small.
The writer of this essay, in my opinion, is simply pro-abortion, and looking for some loophole in Exodus to justify a political position.
If my neighbor’s barbecue emits sparks that set my house on fire, he will owe me financial damages. If he intentionally sets my house on fire he deserves felony conviction and imprisonment.
Pre-scientific people believed that God breathed life into the unborn at a specific instant and that that instant might be as late as the.moment of birth. We know better today that near term babies are more than just “potential life”.
A real rabbi, so famous he was just called ‘The Rav’, (Joseph Ber Soloveitchik), had plenty to say about abortion, calling it murder and a society allowing it insane.
Killing JEWISH babies....did they study Hitler?
The new Altar is the abortionist’s table...for some
Legalized murder under the guise of religion. Lovely.
(The meaning is clear: The fetus is regarded as potential life, rather than actual life.)
Oh yeah. That’s compelling logic for abortion, no doubt about it. Flawless logic. Abundantly clear and precise.
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rabii`s mother should have aborted him when she had the chance.
Gee and I thought the 10 Commandments indicated “Thou shalt NOT kill?” Didn’t Moses follow the 10 Commandments?
A Molekh worshiper would be enthused about abortion, since child sacrifice is one of the rituals involved in supplicating that deity.
Sadly, this doesn’t surprise me anymore. One of the people who volunteered at the clinic we used to pray at What’s Episcopalian. Are there any pro life for Episcopalians these days?
Oh, and the damages get paid to the husband cuz the wife and the baby are his property. The woman here has zero rights. I don't see those points influencing this woman's religious practice. Talk about your inconvenient truth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
Exodus 21
Verse 4: "If his master gives him [his male servant] a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free."
Verse 7: "If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as menservants do."
Verse 17: "Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death."
Come on anti-life ladies, there are lots more laws in the old testament you should live under, correct?
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