The religious Jewish community cannot justify staying on the sidelines of the abortion debate, writes an ultra- Orthodox health care researcher Alabama and Georgia have passed laws recently that limit or forbid abortions in unprecedented ways, joining a growing number of states that are attempting to dramatically restrict abortion access. During these charged times, it is appropriate for the Jewish community to remind ourselves that halakha ( Jewish law ) has a nuanced view of abortion . It seems that many in the Orthodox Jewish community have not been overly worried by these and other efforts to curtail legal abortion...