Abortion is a religious freedom issue. Just not in the way the Christian right thinks it is.
in all or most cases, compared with 82 percent of Buddhists and 83 percent of Jews.
But what would an alternative religious reading of abortion rights look like? Why should Americans simply accept that the only religious “freedom” worthy of respect and consideration is of the right-wing Christian variety? “Banning abortion is a violation of our religious liberty and ability to fulfill even our religious obligations, the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment,” Rabbi Ruttenberg told me in an email. “The Talmud [the text that serves as the primary source of Jewish law] considers the fetus ‘mere water’ for the first 40 days after conception and part of the pregnant person's body after that – as potential life until birth, not as actual life at conception.
My generation will be yet another left to fight for our bodily autonomy, our complete personhood, and, yes, our religious freedom.on the basis of religious freedom, it follows that they should be ready to listen to cases that argue that abortion bans prevent Jewish Americans from exercising their religious freedoms. Whether or not Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor’s lawsuit holds up, there will be others in its wake.
When I spoke to my Jewish grandmother today from the back seat of an Uber, zipping around New York City, preparing to write this piece before heading out to witness another round of protests, one thing she said stuck with me. After expressing pride in her past work for abortion rights, she paused and sighed.It occurred to me that my generation will be yet another left to fight for our bodily autonomy, our complete personhood, and, yes, our religious freedom.
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