![]() ![]() The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently lifted a major restriction on access to abortion medication. Two pills, taken at home until up to 10 weeks’ gestation, make abortion accessible-though not yet as affordable as it needs to be-to people in rural areas and in many other situations where a surgical abortion is harder to obtain or simply less preferable. (And then, we have to get the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH) Act passed, which would expand abortion access-because rights are critical, but people must have access.) So, that’s one avenue.Īnother important piece of the picture is medication abortion, which is a critical avenue for abortion access. We need to get the pressure on to make it happen before the Dobbs v Jackson decision comes down. Yes, the Senate is a difficult place, but passing it would transform everything on the ground nationwide. Right now, there is a bill that has been passed by the House, called the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), that would make abortion rights the law of the land regardless of SCOTUS. Many places have been without access or with significant barriers to access for a long time, disproportionately impacting people of color, people struggling to make ends meet, disabled people, young people, people in rural communities, immigrants, and trans and nonbinary people.Īnd we have two choices: We can fall down a spiral of fear and despair, or we can organize to protect people in all of the ways that we can. More than 100 abortion bans were passed in 2021 alone. 8 in Texas-the six-week ban-has basically been in effect since September, give or take. And the truth is a lot of people are already being harmed: S.B. Ruttenberg: Listen, the threat to the safety and autonomy of so many people in this country is real I’m not going to sugarcoat it. Wade being overturned? In addition to the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling, what are the greatest threats to abortion access today and how is the National Council of Jewish Women responding to them? What message do you have as a faith leader for people across the country who are worried about Roe v. Wade, the court is explicitly being asked to overturn that landmark precedent. ![]() In this case, which is the first pre-viability blanket ban on abortion the Supreme Court has agreed to consider since Roe v. This interview, conducted via email in February 2022, has been lightly copyedited and condensed.ĬAP: By the end of June, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on Dobbs v. CAP named her one of its “ 21 Faith Leaders To Watch in 2021.” Ruttenberg has a regular newsletter called “Life is a Sacred Text” and has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. She is also the author of seven books and will release her eighth- On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World-later this year. ![]() To learn more about religion and abortion access, the Center for American Progress interviewed Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, scholar in residence at the National Council of Jewish Women. This narrative erases the fact that there’s a long history of religious activism to expand access to abortion as well as public opinion polling that proves most religious Americans do not want Roe v. Public discourse about abortion too often frames the anti-abortion movement as a religious one, while those who support reproductive rights are assumed to be more secular. ![]()
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