I saw this:
We, the undersigned Orthodox rabbis, respond with alarm to the 2021 Texas Senate Bill 8 which effectively bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy (four weeks from conception).
Jewish law shows the utmost concern for life and potential life. Our communities are emphatically pro-natal, celebrating new lives and investing heavily in the education and moral development of our children. At the same time, there are cases where Jewish law requires aborting a pregnancy. Abortions are devastating, and we counsel them in situations where tragedy is nearly inevitable or has already occurred. But tragedies happen, and abortion is a medical procedure used by Jews since antiquity to mitigate dire outcomes and protect life.
Under SB8, Texan Jews are not able to protect a mother’s life in accordance with the ancient laws of our faith. The new Texas law is cruel to all women, and for Jewish women it constitutes a violation of their constitutionally protected right to practice religion and of their unalienable rights to pursue life, liberty and happiness as understood by Jewish law and practice.
We call upon Texan lawmakers to reverse SB8 immediately, leaving decisions about abortion in the hands of women, their healthcare providers, and any religious and spiritual guidance they choose to seek out.
"Signed" - including some famous apikorsim, a few lady rabbis, an open homosexual and ... an old friend and chavrusa of mine.
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Wow!!!!! "CRUEL" to forbid women to crush living babies [in their belly's] to death.
This is ALLLLLL about protecting the life of the mother who will die if she carries the baby to term.
BALOOOOOOOOONEEEYYYYYYYYYYYY TO THE THOUSANDTH DEGREE.
It is actually all about this crazy woke culture we live in. According to Halacha, when a Gentile performs an abortion it is tantamount to killing a living, breathing human being and the murderer receives the death penalty.
May Hashem save us from such "Orthodox" rabbis who sanction murder.
