Rabbi Daniel Bogard goes viral after explaining the importance of abortion amid the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade opinion leak.
Rabbi Daniel Bogard of the Central Reform Congregation in St. Louis, Missouri, wrote a thread Tuesday evening, which has been liked over 64,000 times and retweeted more than 16,000 times. In it, he cites the"For Jews who can become pregnant, access to abortion services is a religious *requirement*, and has been for thousands of years.
The Mishnah is even more explicit when it comes to abortion in the case the pregnant person is in danger if a birth occurs. "'Rodef' is a legal category in Judaism for someone/something on the way to kill a human being. Jewish law obligates us to stop a Rodef at any cost--up to and including taking their life. Thus, a pregnancy that endangers life is considered a Rodef and *must* be terminated," Bogard continues.
Rabbi Daniel Bogard laid out his reasoning that the Jewish tradition requires accessible abortion. In this photo, abortion rights advocates protest in front of the Supreme Court building in the wake of a leaked decision draft that would overturn Roe v. Wade.Christian anti-abortion advocates, however, argue that Bogard's reading of Exodus 21:22-3 isn't correct.
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