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guest column

The Fight for Reproductive Freedom
N

ational Council 
of Jewish Women 
(NCJW) is proud 
to launch our Rabbis for 
Repro campaign, encouraging 
Jewish clergy to teach, write 
and speak 
out about 
reproductive 
rights and 
Judaism in 
the U.S. and 
in the Jewish 
community. 
Now, more than 
ever, we need strong Jewish 
moral leadership around these 
issues.
The Supreme Court’
s ruling 
in June, Medical Services v. Russo, 
was a huge victory reaffirming 
our C 
onstitutional right to 
abortion access, but the fight 
to ensure abortion access is far 
from over. It is more important 
than ever to reaffirm the Jewish 
community’
s commitment to 
ensuring all who need it have 
access to information and 
reproductive health care.
One in four people who can 

become pregnant will have 
an abortion by age 45. Jewish 
tradition views abortion as 
essential healthcare not only 
permitted but, in some cases, 
required when a life is at risk. 
That’
s why we are excited to 
partner with rabbis, inviting 
them to lead the charge to use 
their rabbinic capacity to speak 
out from their Zoom bimah, 
teach a class on reproductive 
freedom or partner with a local 
NCJW section or reproductive 
justice organization. This is an 
important moment for Jewish 
leaders to speak out for repro-
ductive autonomy.

NCJW is especially pleased 
to introduce the Abortion 
and Jewish Values Toolkit, an 
extraordinary new resource 
designed to offer tremendous 
support to protect and expand 
abortion rights and access for 
all. 
For more than 125 years, we 
have boldly imagined a world 
where every person can make 
their own moral and faith-in-
formed decisions about their 
body, health and future. Now, 
in the face of false narratives 
and appalling rhetoric con-
cerning this critical issue, it is 
more important than ever to 

lift up the voices of people of 
faith who advocate for bodily 
autonomy because of our reli-
gion, not in spite of it.
We invite you to take action 
on proactive federal legislation 
and to engage with NCJW as 
you begin to advocate on your 
own, with your friends and in 
your community.
Check our website at NCJW
.
org for NCJW’
s Abortion and 
Jewish Values Toolkit. You will 
find messaging guidance, tools 
and insight about our work to 
protect and expand abortion 
rights framed through a Jewish 
lens. There are sample emails, 
social media posts and graph-
ics for you to share your sup-
port for reproductive freedom.
Please spread the word and 
encourage your rabbis and can-
tors to sign and join Rabbis for 
Repro. 

Amy Cutler is president, National 
Council of Jewish Women, Michigan. 
NCJW welcome your comments 
and questions. Contact them at the 
NCJW|MI office at (248) 355-3300 
or email pres@ncjw.org.

Amy Cutler

