Judaism holds that life only begins when the first breath is drawn. Until then it is not a life. These laws go against Judaism. |
Orthodox Jews would disagree with you, so I wouldnt stretch this too far. But satanic temple does have abortion as one of its tenets. |
None of that is healthcare, so that doesn’t answer PP’s question. |
The first breath is from Genesis 1:2. Maimonides and most other Jewish scholars have said life begins when the head emerges. Defining life as beginning prior to birth runs counter to Jewish religion. |
Judaism places the duty to save the life and health of the mother over a baby that has not yet emerged into the birth canal. |
Not with the way these places lie. They’re scammy joints that bully women into keeping pregnancies they don’t want. Like the “someone” you know. They pretend to be clinics; they are not clinics. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/why-crisis-pregnancy-centers-are-legal-unethical/2018-03 They lie about who they are and about abortion. https://scholars.org/brief/study-information-and-misinformation-presented-websites-crisis-pregnancy-centers-georgia |
It's fine to make the distinction that they are not clinics. But it is okay if someone is looking for help, and gets it at a pregnancy crisis center. For many women, having a baby is a good thing. There are two sides to this coin. |
They have worked hard to obscure the fact that they are not clinics. There was a whole thing over this back in the days of the yellow pages. For all women who want children, having a baby when they want to have children is a great thing. The difference is that forced birthers want to take away choice entirely, even from women who are pregnant and don’t want to be losing a pregnancy but will, in the GOP’s Handmaid’s Tale, lose not only their pregnancy but also their lives. You think you’re making a sly point, like maybe pro choice people haven’t even considered that some people want to have kids, like most of us don’t already have them ourselves, like we’re forcing people to get abortions. You think women are so effing stupid that they don’t understand what abortion is, so you guys invented waiting periods and force doctors to recite scripts that aren’t even scientifically accurate. There are two sides to this coin: trusting women as pro choice voters do and then hating women and wanting them to really feel Eve’s curse. |
The article only cites violation of religious freedom rights of Jewish women. But it seems that there would be an equal, if not more extreme, direct violation of religious freedom rights for Jewish doctors. |
The distinction is important because medical clinics are what are protected by the FACE Act. |
Abortion is not a Jewish tenet or common practice like circumcision and is not required to practice the religion. There is a difference between stating when they believe life begins and facilitating abortions. Furthermore Maimonides is a scholar but not a religious figure. |
You're taking an untenable position. True enough- these places should not call themselves clinics. Personally, I've only seen them advertised as "centers." But your position that organizations should not be able to attempt to influence pregnant women to keep the baby-- I dont think your position would hold up in any court. These women walk through their doors, ready to entertain the message. This is separate from the abortion question. You are arguing no pro-pregnancy groups, without the goal of abortions, should be able to operate. |
Not PP but “women walk through their doors” because they lie to them about what’s inside. Watch 12th & Delaware on HBO Max. |
People walk through the doors of the Church of Scientology. Also the doors of fundamentalist mormon cults. Why would we allow all that but specifically make crisis pregnancy centers illegal. Not everything you disagree with should be illegal. It's this crazy level of extremism that has our country at this point. |