ProChoice: Only for Some Women

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By Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter, Executive Director, Help Rescue Our Children

Parshas Bo 5781 / January 21, '21

NJ's currently contested abortion bill S3030 states:

"4. (New section) a. Every individual present in the State, including, but not limited to, an individual who is under State control or supervision, shall have the fundamental right to:

(1) choose or refuse contraception or sterilization; and

(2) choose whether to carry a pregnancy, to give birth, or to have an abortion."

That means visitors to NJ will share in these "rights." This appears to be an open invitation for human-traffickers to bring their trafficking victims to NJ, to commit their "business-related" abortions in NJ. That would suggest passage of S3030 would make NJ even more infested with human traffickers than it already is.

This reveals a dimension of the abortion industry that exposes its rank hypocrisy almost as much as its sheer brutality. The abortion industry makes a killing off of the myth of a woman's "right to choose." They market their right to kill babies based on promoting the right of mothers to reproduce - and then to choose to "deproduce" those same children, whom they brought into the world. We all know how hypocritical it is for these people to campaign on "Choice" while denying the fully innocent baby a right to live, or to even have a "choice" to live. But there's more.

The abortion industry doesn't even live up to their own platitudes about "choice" for the mothers. Those trafficked mothers aren't given much choice. However, the abortion industry and their enabling legislators don't care about "Choice" for THOSE mothers. That's apparently because allowing trafficking victims "choice" doesn't provide the abortion industry it's coveted cash-flow. Thus, those self-righteous grandstanders for a woman's "choice" really don't care about "choice" even for women. They just care about their criminal business plan.

This legislation reveals something else as well. The abortion industry and its corporate co-conspirators are as willing to endanger the lives of women as they are willing to kill babies. This bill would help enable human trafficking to prosper. Human trafficking invariably poses a clear and present danger to the lives of many trafficking victims. Nevertheless, the aforementioned corporate and governmental enablers have no objections to unabashedly supporting such legislation.

The response needs to be to expose this legislation and its backers for what they really are: simply criminal. Then we need to constructively leverage the current popular angst to unseat state legislators who need to go. We'll have a much more realistic shot at draining the swamps on the state level this year, if we utilize the opportunity. We need to do our part; Our Creator will do the rest.

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Binyomin Feinberg feinbergbinyomin@gmail.com
15 Teves, 5781 / 29 Dec., '20

The Aitz-affiliate "HaPeles" newspaper, belonging to one of the Chareidi factions who claim allegiance to the late Gadol, HaRav Shmuel Aurbach ZTVK"L, recently published a detailed article about the attempt by the Israeli Army to disqualify the religious exemptions already given to girls, based on allegedly solid evidence of sins the girls committed subsequently. Apparently, commission of such transgressions is being taken very seriously by the staunchly antireligious Jews operating the Israeli Army Draft Offices. They're making it clear that their die-hard opposition to religious coersion ("Kefiah Datit") will not impede their zealous surveillance of religious girls who legally obtained religious exemptions. Here is a summary of some of the main points of the story, from another Chareidi source online (slightly edited here), "The Sentry:"

In 1978 the chareidi political parties joined the governing coalition. One of the pressing reasons to join, was in order to change the process of how a girl received her army exemption. Until that point the girl had to present herself before a committee [composed of religious and non-religious members] and declare that she is religious. The committee had the power to agree with her declaration or to challenge it. This caused many girls to become entangled in military red-tape, or worse. Additionally, the Gedolei Torah wanted that even girls who were only traditional should also be able to exempt herself, as an army is not suitable for any girl. Additionally, a girl who would be subjected to military service would hold very little chance to ever advance in Yiddishkeit. [Most often, girls suffer terrible spiritual declines in the Army -Ed.]

They thus demanded that any girl who declares before a Rav (Rabbi) that she doesn’t travel on Shabbos and eats only kosher, must be given an exemption, without any checking into the accuracy of her statement. (For good reason; no girl should be forced into the Army, regardless of religious observance. Ed)

The political situation at that time gave thechareidim leverage to make this demand, and it indeed became law. The military was now reduced to a mere postal service to deliver the exemption, without any power to deny it. If they would seek to dispute it, they would need to begin a very difficult legal process. Within thirty days the military would have to file a criminal accusation, and prove that - at the moment that the declaration was made - it was untrue. And thus, in the past forty plus years, problems with obtaining girls’ exemptions had been almost unheard of, until recent years.