If rituals give us context to mark transitions and liturgy gives us the language to describe them, there is a whole set of transitions and experiences historically ignored within Jewish tradition.
My family’s underground birth control history has too much resonance today.
September 28th activists are bringing attention to the need for wide access to self-managed abortion (also known as medical abortion, or abortion pills).
If we support a women’s right to choose, her right to bodily autonomy, then this clearly includes her right to choose to change her body as she pleases.
Judith Arcana and Sheila Avruch recall their days in the early 1970s, helping Chicagoans who “called Jane” for abortion referrals.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
