Our biblical history teaches us that giving birth and adoption are much better choices than child sacrifice after rape and incest. Recent research and testimonies from women who have been sexually assaulted underscore the need to understand the issue more fully so that everyone involved can make safe, life saving, long term solutions.

It is not compassionate and merciful to put women through the emotional, psychological, and physical horror of abortion

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.