Why Post-Roe Abortion Bans Must Exempt Religious Jews

Conservative Christians have been successful in recent years in winning exemptions from health care laws, nondiscrimination laws (especially those governing women’s and LGBTQ equality) and even workplace harassment laws. Now, however, with the prospect of Roe v. Wade being overturned and abortion being criminalized in dozens of states, religious exemptions will need to start flowing to other groups. For starters, exemptions must be granted to any Jewish person seeking to practice their religion and obtain an abortion.