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Support for abortion is found in Jewish holy texts, and in her sermon last fall Nathan quoted a passage from the Talmud, the main source of Jewish law and theology, that she said establishes the right to terminate a pregnancy if it is endangering a pregnant person’s life. She mentioned how the Torah, the Mishnah and other rabbinic texts “consider the woman’s physical and emotional health before that of the fetus,”
Those choices were intentional, Nathan said: “For me, if I’m going to speak about this, it needs to be grounded in Jewish tradition. … I need to say, ‘You need to look at these ancient Jewish texts and understand that our tradition says this, and then I want to connect it to our own lives.’”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...bortion-rights-leaders-are-speaking-rcna27194
Those choices were intentional, Nathan said: “For me, if I’m going to speak about this, it needs to be grounded in Jewish tradition. … I need to say, ‘You need to look at these ancient Jewish texts and understand that our tradition says this, and then I want to connect it to our own lives.’”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...bortion-rights-leaders-are-speaking-rcna27194