“With a matter as weighty as that of abortion, our communities ask that the government remove itself from involvement in these important religious issues.” The Muslim and Jewish traditions consider aborting a pregnancy to be a very serious issue that is both addressed and debated within our respective legal systems. There are varying views of whether abortion is prohibited, permitted, or even, at times, mandated, depending on many factors: the stage of the pregnancy, the physical threat to the life of the mother, whether the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, and other factors. In both communities, there...