Crisis pregnancy group reflects Jewish divide on abortion

Crisis pregnancy group reflects Jewish divide on abortion - The Washington Post: Erica Pelman founded In Shifra's Arms — named for one of the midwives who saved Hebrew babies from Pharaoh in the biblical Exodus story — after a friend got pregnant in 2005 and planned to get an abortion. In 2009, she recruited a board to create an organization to provide a Jewish alternative to Christian crisis pregnancy centers. The goal: providing counseling, financial planning, employment and educational assistance, information on Jewish adoptions, rabbinic counseling and even maternity and baby clothes.

One thing ISA doesn’t provide, however, is information on or referrals for abortion, which has angered some Jews.

Editor: This anger is so crazy on so many levels.