Abortion
That America still so passionately debates abortion marks the difference between the stagnation of Europe and the hopeful civilization of the United States.
A question distinct from that of the halakhic permissibility of abortion.
Jews’ First Amendment rights are not at stake.
Roe was a sledgehammer, and wrongly wielded.
The Bible, Orthodox Judaism, and a post-Roe America.
Religious freedom is the answer.
“A fetus might not be a person in Jewish law, but it is a potential person, and must therefore be protected.”
Even when espoused by Jewish groups.
Activists now want to delegitimize religious freedom.
A mentally disabled woman has been deemed unfit to reproduce.
A new line of pro-choice argumentation makes little sense.
An expansion of freedom to follow halakhah, or a license to kill?
Pro-life, but not in the contemporary sense.
Perverting the meaning of religious liberty.
