Assaults on reproductive health services continue to grow on a local, state and federal level.  Moreover, access to abortion and affordable family planning has been severely restricted.  There is also a growing movement to bestow the rights of full personhood on the fetus.  In light of the debate within American society regarding a woman’s right to choose, the JCPA reaffirms its support for a woman’s legal right to reproductive choice and for adequately funded family planning programs in the United States and abroad, in accordance with our 1999 resolution on reproductive health.

 

The JCPA believes that:

 

The community relations field should:

 

Dissent: The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (UOJCA) does not as a matter of long­standing policy, join with the Jewish Council for Public Affairs in resolutions concerning “reproductive choice. ” We cannot endorse a public policy that does not reflect the complex response of halacha (Jewish Law) to the abortion issue. In most circumstances the halacha proscribes abortion but there are cases in which halacha permits and indeed mandates abortion. The question is a sensitive one and personal decisions in this area should be made in consultation with recognized halachic authorities.

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