Rabbi fighting Florida's anti-abortion law challenging 'theocratic tyranny'
Rabbi Barry Silver of Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor in Palm Beach County has created an initiative to assist other religious organizations with lawsuits against anti-abortion measures.
June 28, 2022, 6:11 PM EDT
By Daniel Arkin
The rabbi whose progressive synagogue sued the state of Florida over a bill that would ban abortions after 15 weeks, arguing that it infringes on religious liberty, has created an initiative to help other faith organizations — and atheists — push back against anti-abortion legislation across the U.S.
Rabbi Barry Silver's initiative, Helping Emancipate Abortion Rights Today (HEART), seeks to "restore abortion rights in a post-Roe v. Wade world" and defy the "theocratic tyranny" of laws that clash with the Jewish belief that abortion is a basic right and life begins at birth, not conception, he said in a phone interview Tuesday.
"The initiative is designed to be able to allow any person of any belief system to challenge the anti-abortion laws on religious grounds," Silver said. "It's the height of chutzpah for people to tell the Jewish people what the Bible means and lecture the Jewish people on the sanctity of life."
Silver's synagogue, Congregation L'Dor Va-Dor, sued this month challenging Florida's anti-abortion law, which is scheduled to take effect Friday. In the Jewish legal tradition, the suit says, "abortion is required if necessary to protect the health, mental or physical well-being of the woman."
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More at link, including pics.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rabbi-fighting-floridas-anti-abortion-law-mission-help-religious-group-rcna35812
AFAIC, this strikes right to the heart of the matter.
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