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Statement on the Obligation to Choose Life

In Judaism, every human life, born and unborn, has infinite value. The life of an unborn human being cannot be terminated except in rare extenuating circumstances when there is no other option to save the life of the mother. 


The media based debate is not addressing this from a true Torah perspective. 


We oppose the deceitful framing of killing unborn children as a religious right and a Jewish value. Childbearing is a mitzvah and a privilege endowed to us by our blessed Creator. All men and women should fulfill this commandment, if possible. 


No right to kill unborn children exists. Let abortion activists select a more truthful slogan, such as "The Right to Kill Unborn Children" which is not a right before Heaven, nor acceptable to the humane. 


The way of the Torah is justice inseparably bound with mercy, charity, faithfulness and kindness. The way of the pro-abortion movement is injustice and cruelty to the defenseless child, and to the mothers who suffer physical, emotional and spiritual harm.


A person who fears G-d and faces a tragic life-threatening situation, in which the mother’s life is in immediate physical threat from the baby itself, will seek to learn the precise parameters that permit abortion under halachah. (Torah law). Judgments that recommend intentionally destroying human life at any gestational age when the mother’s life is not imperiled, do not meet strict Torah guidelines that prohibit shedding innocent blood. Opinions taken out of context that lead to misinterpretation of halachah condone acts of cruelty by right of whim. This is highly wrong, and a perversion of the intent of Torah law. We strongly object to this. 


The Torah is explicitly clear. “This day, I call upon the heaven, and the earth as witnesses of you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. You shall choose life, so that you and your offspring will live…” (Deuteronomy 30:19).


“He who spills the blood of man within man shall have his blood spilled, for in the image of G-d, He made man. And you, be fruitful, and multiply; and increase upon the earth, and multiply therein.” (Genesis 9:6-7). 


The Torah sages explain "the blood of man within man” refers to a growing unborn child in the womb of the mother. (Talmud Sanhedrin 57b). The severity of abortion in Torah is underscored by consequences for the abortionist ranging from death at the hands of Heaven to the death penalty in a court of law. (Meshech Chochma Exodus Vayakhel 35:2; Talmud Sanhedrin 57b; Rambam Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings and their Wars 9:4).


These Torah prohibitions apply both to Jews and non-Jews in all times and all places.


Let no one claim that they do not know. 


Personal statement:

I join in signing this vital life-saving Torah message to the world, with additional emphasis on encouraging every human being to do their most to themselves bring more human beings into the world, and to support, encourage and assist others to do so, as a way of bringing more of the Divine Image into the world fulfilling the First Commandment and Blessing, to be Fruitful and Multiply and fill the earth with human beings. And, conclude with blessing that may G-d bless every woman who merits to conceive a child to have the strength and fortitude to bring that child to term in health, joy and prosperity.


A signature here does not constitute the signatory's endorsement of, or affiliation with, the organization and/or the other signatories. 


To sign, please use the button below to open your email app.

If your email doesn't open, please email me directly at cecily@jewishprolifefoundation.org.


View and print a pdf of this statement with signatures here



Sign the Statement

Rabbi Menashe Bovit, Queens, NY

Rabbi Yakov Cohen, Institute of Noahide Code UN NGO ECOSOC

Rebbetzin Elisheva H. Flink, M.D.

Rabbi Alan Betsalel Friedlander, Brooklyn, NY

Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Homnick, North Miami Beach, FL

Rabbi Yitzchak Kolakowski, Koblentzer Rebbe, Kauneonga Lake, NY

Rabbi Yehuda Levin

Rabbi Asher Meza, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Rabbi Shlomo Nachman ben Ya'akov

Rabbi David Novak, Toronto, Canada

Rabbi N. Smilowitz

Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Smith, Passaic, NJ

Rabbi Chananya Weissman, Jerusalem, Israel

Dana Alexander, Chandler, AZ

Steve Baer, fmr President, United Republican Fund of Illinois

Don Belding, Kingman, AZ 

David L. Blatt, Chicago, IL 

Shira Brody

Diane Butler

Michael Chapman, managing editor, CNSNews.com

Bonnie Chernin, Brooklyn, NY 

Thomas Clyons, Trumbull CT

Joan Cowperthwaite, California USA

Atara and Dave Crown

Rebecca G. Duesterbeck, Richland Center, Wisconsin

Dina and Brian Fine, Long Island NY

Lily Fletcher

Liz Gabert Bedford, New Hampshire

Ruth Gray, Florida

Sophie-Shifra Gold, Washington State

Pat Goltz

Penina Greenspan, Silver Spring, MD

Todd Jonathan Harman, White House, TN

John H. Hingson IV, Happy Valley, Oregon

Julie H. New York, NY

Selah Bat Sarah (Ellen Jones), Princeton, KY

Robby Jones, Texas

Dr. Rex Kochanski (Ph.D. Cell and Molecular Biology)

Timothy Klein

Noson Shmuel Leiter

Jenna M. Lepley

Alice Lemos, Phd., Queens, NY

Joseph Levin

Katherine A K Locke

Rebekah Lohnes

Judy Lutz, Pennsylvania

Tom Maitlen

Tiffany Matthews, President, Miscarriage Moms For Life

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., Founder and President of the Ruth Institute

Yaakov Mosher, Connecticut

Matthew Nash

P. Orloff, Hackensack, NJ

Ron Panzer

Eileen Peterson, Stony Point, NY

Esti Pinnick

Ana Pusar, Delray, Florida

Chana Ravinsky

M Rayner, New Zealand

Cecily Routman, Pittsburgh, PA

Ross Schriftman, Casper, WY

Beth and Gene Schmuter

Meir Schrover, Israel

Sheila Segall

Monica Silber

Joshua Simer, Chaska, MN

Susan Singer, Florida

Mary Spies

Miriam Fischer Vidal, Summerfield, FL

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