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Resolution on Reproductive Freedom
Background:
While over the past 30 years the Rabbinical Assembly has come out in favor of Reproductive Freedom and Choice in a number of areas, such as abortion (1975 and subsequently); violence and pro-choice (1993); the 2005 resolution...
Resolution on Support for Informed Access to Reproductive Care
Background:
On December 8, 2004, President George Bush signed into law the FY 2005 Consolidated Appropriations Act. Included in this omnibus appropriations bill is a provision known as the Weldon Federal Refusal Clause. This provision was drafted...
Resolution on Reproductive Freedom in the United States
May 21, 2012
Background
Over the past four decades the Rabbinical Assembly has consistently supported reproductive freedom. This support is firmly based on our members’ understanding of relevant biblical and rabbinic sources as well...
Resolution on Right to Legal and Accessible Abortion in the United States
March 15, 2021
“If anyone kills any human being, he shall be put to death” (Leviticus 24:17). In the Mekhilta d’Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai (21:12), the midrash teaches that a fetus is not a living person: “The Torah says ‘[one who strikes] a man’...
Resolution Against Sexual Harassment and/or Assault
March 15, 2021
Whereas the Torah teaches us that we are all created בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים (betzelem elohim, “in the image of God”), and thus it follows that Rabbi Eliezer said (Pirkei Avot 2:10), “יְהִי כְבוֹד חֲבֵרְךָ חָבִיב עָלֶיךָ כְּשֶׁלָּךְ” (“Let your fellow's...
Resolution Supporting Freedom of Access to Reproductive Health Care
April 16, 2024
Background:
According to Judaism, life begins at birth. Though cherished as potential life, a fetus is considered part of a mother’s body and not a person until birth. Consistent with the Jewish obligation to heal oneself and others, Jewish...