Sarah M. Seltzer
As a new 6–3 Supreme Court with Amy Coney Barrett begins hearing cases about reproductive rights in 2021, and Roe stands on ever-shakier footing, here is a look back at…
The Fight for Reproductive Rights: It Never Ends
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Gloria’s Top 5 Ways to Fight for Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice
by Gloria Feldt
But haven’t we already fought those battles?” I hear this question often when I’m speaking to women’s groups. Since I started my own activism for reproductive rights and health in…
Reproductive Rights: An Update
by Alice Sparberg Alexiou
…the fight to preserve reproductive rights is increasingly being waged in the courts. NCJW, on the other hand, has been involved in judicial lobbying since 2002, when the organization began…
Struggle Over Reproductive Rights Heats Up
by Alice Sparberg Alexiou
Since January, the Bush Administration has twice bypassed the Senate to install anti-choice Federal judges whose appointments have been opposed by reproductive rights advocates. On January 16, while Congress was…
From the Editor
by Susan Weidman Schneider
…Klapper, in the Lilith archive at lilith.org). In this issue, the harnessing of social justice to one’s Jewishness informs “Our Reproductive Selves,” a whole section in which you’ll meet an…
Sacred Female, Sacred You
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…about our selves. Do we like our selves? Do we see our selves as sacred and holy? Do we think our selves are generally pretty awesome and worthy of respect…
Generation Roe: On the Ramparts for Reproductive Rights
by Sarah Erdreich
The first half of 2011 has been rough for reproductive rights in the United States. In the past few months alone, the Ohio legislature allowed a fetus to “testify” in…
Rallying for Abortion, Jewishly
NCJW, activists, and allies
…June decision by SCOTUS to deny women the reproductive rights guaranteed for the past 50 years, here are some edited and updated excerpts of speeches from that rally. STEPH…
Elisa Albert Takes on the Mess and Anger of our Reproductive Lives
Ayelet Haimson Lushkov
…greatest self-sacrificing maternal things.” After I spoke with Albert, the conversation about the reproductive process has taken a radical shift, as Roe vs. Wade, the landmark decision which legalized abortions…
Reproductive Justice Instead of “Jewish Continuity.”
Michal Raucher
Michal Raucher is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. Her first book, Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority Among Haredi Women, will be published by Indiana University Press in November…