After the draft Supreme Court ruling on abortion access was leaked, Rabbi Daniel Bogard (MO) and Representative Tana Senn (WA) wrote an opinion editorial published in the San Francisco Chronicle entitled, “Supreme Court’s Roe ruling would trample the religious freedom of every Jewish American.” The piece references numerous Talmudic and other Jewish sources that discuss abortion.
“Beyond being a violation of the human rights of pregnant people, limiting access to abortion is an imposition of governmental Christianity on us all. And it infringes on the religious liberty of every American Jew…We say that ‘access to abortion is a religious requirement for Jews.’ Because there are situations where Judaism doesn’t just allow abortion. In fact, tradition requires abortion when the life of the pregnant person is threatened.”