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A New Film Takes on the Jewish Case for Abortion Rights

…establishment clauses that prohibit a state religion to win reproductive justice for all believers—and non-believers. Audre Lorde famously argued that the “master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” However,…

Bush’s War—The One on Women

…block women’s access to safe and affordable reproductive health care. One example is the naming of W. David Hager to the Food and Drug Administration’s Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health…

21 Books We Want to Read in 2024

…to reproductive health guidebooks, and everything in between. Did we miss some that we should cover in 2024? Let us know at info@lilith.org! Fiction: Dear Edna Sloane by Amy Shearn…

From the Editor: What Is Different Now

The day after the U.S. Supreme Court cast reproductive rights to the wolves, I phoned a store to order a cabinet. The woman who took my call sounded distracted, even…

Surrogacy, Abortion, Miscarriages, and More

…for You (McSweeney’s, $21.99), she cast a wide net, soliciting work that focused not just on abortion, but on the many issues that comprise reproductive justice. “I felt drawn to…

How Did They Get Into Her Womb?

…days of being diagnosed with cervical cancer—which ultimately claimed her entire reproductive system— she began filming the story of her own illness, and her recovery. “All the years that I’ve…

Putting Jewish Wombs to Work

The new reproductive technologies have been enthusiastically embraced in Israel, a country where the imperative to reproduce has deep religious, historical, political and cultural roots. This embrace extends from the…

This Sacred Time of Year is a Birthing Story

…to us. They remind us of the holiness, the divinity, of pregnant bodies. Since 2016, I have more closely studied the traditional Jewish legal approach to reproductive health and rights….

Happening

…cut through political rhetoric and help people understand the need for full reproductive rights. Did you make a reproductive decision in which your faith played a role? Do you have…