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pregnancy, which she took, 
because she didn’t want to 
go through that again with 
another child,” Karkowsky 
said. “A woman must have 
agency over her own body.”
Pro-choice advocates are 
alarmed that it’s become 
harder to obtain a legal abor-
tion. “Currently, 58 percent 
of women are being denied 
that legal right in their state,” 
Pogrebin said. In Texas, 
abortions are restricted after 
about six weeks, long before 
most women realize they 
are pregnant. Penalties are 
attached for anyone assisting 
in terminating a pregnancy. 
The Supreme Court let the 
laws stand for now.

SCOTUS DECISION 
PENDING
On Dec. 1, the High Court 
heard arguments in Dobbs 
v. Jackson Women’s Health 
Organization, a case that may 

overturn or fur-
ther erode repro-
ductive freedom. 
SCOTUS will rule 
on the constitu-
tionality of a 2018 
Mississippi state 
law that banned 
abortion opera-
tions after the first 
15 weeks of preg-
nancy. 
 Hadassah and more than 
69 others submitted “friend 
of the court” briefs in the 
case, urging the Supreme 
Court to strike down the 
state law.
With the decision pending, 
Pogrebin called for action: 
“We must get out the vote on 
this issue and run for office 
ourselves. Voters were not 
hearing about reproductive 
rights in the 2020 election. 
“We need to expand access 
(to abortion) to anyone 
who can’t afford the cost or 

time it takes to 
travel to an abor-
tion-friendly state” 
by donating to 
National Network 
of Abortion Funds 
(abortionfunds.
org) and also 
NARAL Pro-
Choice America 
(prochoiceamerica.
org).
“Republican-dominated 
state legislatures have enacted 
1,300 restrictions on repro-
ductive health,” said Debbie 
Kessler, vice coordinator of 
Hadassah’s Department of 
Education and Advocacy. 
Democrats Rep. Lois Frankel 
of Florida and Rep. Sarah 
Jacobs of California, both on 
the program, sponsored a bill 
to safeguard women’s repro-
ductive rights by enshrining 
abortion into law. 
“The Women’s Health 
Protection Act (S.1975) 

passed the House and needs 
to be taken up by the Senate,” 
Kessler said. “The bill would 
allow Congress to stop 
state-level abortion bans and 
other onerous and medically 
unnecessary requirements 
placed on patients, physicians 
and service providers.” 
She encouraged writ-
ing legislators to “oppose 
abortion bans, particularly 
those that contain no excep-
tions for rape, incest, fetal 
abnormalities or situations 
in which the health of the 
woman is severely threatened 
by her pregnancy.” 
No matter what the 
Supreme Court decides, 
Kessler said Hadassah 
intends to be ready: “This 
fight is not only for our-
selves, but for our daughters 
and granddaughters.” 

For information, visit: Events.

Hadassah.org/ReproAction.

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