Rabbi Yehuda
Levin is Orthodox.
Nat Hentoff is
an atheist.
Marc Gellman is a
TV host and
Reform rabbi.
They are all pro-life.
Beg ti
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t wasn't long ago that Rabbi Yehuda Levin didn't even know
what the word "abortion" meant.
He was living in Brooklyn, studying at the Mirrer Yeshi-
va. His friends, neighbors, virtually everyone he knew was
Jewish. Abortion came up in conversation about as often as
the subject of Christmas traditions.
Then an acquaintance asked Rabbi Levin to attend a city
council meeting. The evening's topic was gay rights. Mem-
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