This year, Choices celebrates its 50th anniversary, and with abortion access once again under attack, it is the perfect time to follow Hoffman’s lead and rededicate ourselves to this fight for justice.
We are not used to mobilizing against the theology of any other tradition. But this is different.
Decades later, at a Jewish symposium on abortion, a male leader self-righteously intoned, “Abortion is never an easy decision.” He’d obviously never been there.
As a woman and a native Texan, I am scared. As a future rabbi, I am furious.
And what does it mean for abortion rights?
The prospect of losing this constitutional right is absolutely terrifying.
“Because of you, I know the perpetual urgency of safeguarding women’s autonomy. I hear the dire importance of maintaining control over my body in my own name.”
It seems that women are being targeted on multiple fronts, almost as if #MeToo and its power have provoked a vicious backlash
Read up on (and spread awareness of) what it will look like in a post-Roe world.
Extra-legal abortions will look different from what they did in the 1970s.
There is good news, points out Yamani Hernandez, and that is that 72% of the population supports safe legal access to abortion.
