More than 1,000 ‘Rabbis for Repro’ work for abortion rights. Their fight just got tougher.

 https://forward.com/news/475027/rabbis-for-repro-abortion-roe-texas-ncjw/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_2810783

 Some Jews, mostly Orthodox, oppose abortion, and have been active in the movement to overturn Roe. But Ruttenberg said that Orthodox Jews are represented in Rabbis for Repro. That subgroup includes Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, a popular writer and motivational speaker, and several Orthodox women who have been ordained and use the titles maharat or rabba.

 Orthodox theology does not assign a fetus the status of a person, as do many Christians opposed to abortion, Rabbi Avi Shafran, a spokesman for Agudath Israel of America, a leading Orthodox group, told the Forward in 2019. And abortion is permitted in Orthodoxy to save the life of the mother and sometimes for other medical complications with permission from one’s rabbi.