Unfortunately there is not much dialogue about abortion in the Jewish community or any community. Rather both sides sit isolated in their own room taking to like minded folks. There are elephants in each room, though. In one room, the elephant is in the form of serious pressures, physical, emotional, and financial, which weigh on a pregnant woman. In the other room, the elephant appears as a fetus in the womb, alive since conception, definitely human, genetically unique, and developing daily. That these two sides have little empathy for each other is a real tragedy.
Unfortunately there is not much dialogue about abortion in the Jewish community or any community. Rather both sides sit isolated in their own room taking to like minded folks. There are elephants in each room, though. In one room, the elephant is in the form of serious pressures, physical, emotional, and financial, which weigh on a pregnant woman. In the other room, the elephant appears as a fetus in the womb, alive since conception, definitely human, genetically unique, and developing daily. That these two sides have little empathy for each other is a real tragedy.