Don't Stand Idly by During Her Pregnancy Crisis

"I don’t feel comfortable with abortion at all," Dara*, who was nine weeks pregnant, told me explicitly in our first conversation. I was the on-call volunteer for In Shifra's Arms (ISA), and the situation sounded straightforward to me. I had recently founded ISA with a small group of both pro-choice and pro-life Jewish women. Our unique purpose was to nurture women through unplanned pregnancy crises and help them build their futures. We were not taking away any options -- just expanding them. At the time Dara called, we were already assisting around a dozen women around the country who wanted support in order to continue their pregnancies.