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What You Don’t Know About Jews and Abortion Access

…Jessica Kirschner, a board member of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, told Lilith. In the immediate aftermath of Roe, activists stopped talking about reproductive health and turned to other…

Abortion in Israel

…clearly valued, but family planning is not. Motherhood is supported and encouraged, but non-mothering women are culturally and economically marginalized. “It seems there is provision for women’s special reproductive health…

From the Editor: What Will We Celebrate?

…all the organizations working to keep reproductive justice guaranteed by law. Cheer people for whatever indisputably personal choices they’re going to make in both their productive and their reproductive lives….

Does Judaism Permit Abortion? Depends Who You Ask.

…reveal the common misinterpretation of reproductive health as a “women’s issue.” We know it is not. Reproductive health affects everyone. Many trans and nonbinary folks can get pregnant and require…

“Dobbs” is Devastating to the IVF Community

…very likely have an impact on women’s reproductive health and care, well beyond the termination of a pregnancy. I am a Jewish woman. Jewish people have a higher rate of…

Bodily Autonomy and The Ultra-Orthodox

…start making their own reproductive health decisions. Raucher begins Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority Among Haredi Women [Indiana University Press, $24.00] by focusing on the fact that in Israel, doctors, who…

No, Margaret Sanger Wasn’t Jewish

You probably know that since the 1960s, American Jewish women have been ardent advocates for reproductive rights, and have developed activist tactics and educational strategies to publicize, protect, and expand…