The anticipated rise in prenatal screening as a profit driven, eugenics enterprise will undoubtedly lead to the destruction of many innocent children. Some will be perfectly healthy. Some will be very sick. Some will have treatable medical conditions. All will be denied a voice and their God given dignity and right to life.

Permissive views of abortion in Judaism for maternal mental illness deny life to our most vulnerable family members based on primitive stories about mental health challenges. These views disregard a mother’s mental anguish after her child’s demise and offer no healing opportunity afterward. They ignore supportive and therapeutic interventions that alleviate a mother’s mental problems and safeguard her baby’s life.

We know that abortion is the deliberate violent destruction of an unborn baby. We know that doing this hurts mothers and fathers in many ways. Accordingly, we provide moral and practical support that saves the baby and parents from harm as we would help parents of a toddler find life saving solutions to their living problems.

Reducing a baby in the womb to ‘mere water’ originally offered relief from guilt for miscarriage, an event outside the control of loving parents. Now, denying an unborn baby's existence gives relief from guilt to those who willfully destroy innocent life in the womb.

When dismemberment abortion is done to treat a mother’s medical condition that becomes acute later in pregnancy, it actually poses an increased risk to the mother’s life. The preferred treatment is early delivery by c-section to minimize the danger to the mother and maximize the baby’s chances of survival.

Isaiah isn't popular with the establishment. He preaches Torah ethics and morals over progressive politics and religious practice, arousing antipathy in the ruling elite of his day whose power and authority is threaten by the prophet's calls for a return to dependency on God for sustenance and safety.

Now, as in biblical times, our future depends upon restoring holiness both in our private lives and our religious observance, as well as in our national policy making.