Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
Judith Arcana and Sheila Avruch recall their days in the early 1970s, helping Chicagoans who “called Jane” for abortion referrals.
Wisdom from the Original Jane Collective
Tag: abortion
Make Your Very Own Uterus Challah This Shabbat
Logan Zinman Gerber
Every Friday night for generations and generations, we’ve stood in kitchens and we’ve kneaded and braided challah into life for Shabbat. We’re going to bring all of those things together today while I teach you how to make a uterus challah for Repro Shabbat.
A New Film Takes on the Jewish Case for Abortion Rights
Helene Meyers
Paula Eiselt’s new documentary “Under G-D” is a short masterpiece, illustrating the legal landscape in the post-Roe world and the major role that Jews are playing in shaping it.
Where Do Your Biases About Abortion Lurk?
Dena Robinson, Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and Steph Black
Understanding our biases is the first step to working through them and overcoming them. Our work is stronger when we understand our relationship to abortion.
My Weirdly Happy Abortion Story
Sally Schloss
My abortion offered me a powerful and unexpected insight into the emotional connection between my body and mind that I haven’t experienced before or since.
Don’t Write Off the South on Abortion
Steph Black and Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
I am forever pushing back against the idea that we all should have to just accept traveling to New York for an abortion. We deserve care where we live.
Is Abortion Access a Jewish Value?
Steph Black and Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
On fighting for abortion access before and after the fall of Roe.
Feeling RBG’s Loss in the Days of Awe
Steph Black
I’ve spent so long learning to decenter myself in this movement that I haven’t really felt, deeply felt, how tired I am.
“Dobbs” is Devastating to the IVF Community
Shoshana Gibbor
The repeal of Roe v. Wade allows states to grant full human rights to fertilized eggs, like the ones that have been collected from my body by my doctors.