Chief Rabbis in Israel Oppose "Abortion Epidemic"

Chief Rabbis in Israel Oppose "Abortion Epidemic" | LifeNews.com: Yona Metzger and Shlomo Amar, the chief rabbis in Israel, are calling on Israelis to fight the “abortion epidemic” they say is ravaging the country. The two Jewish leaders sent a letter to all rabbis across the country, citing a portion of the Torah from Exodus that relates the story of Hebrew midwives refusing an edict from Pharaoh to drown newborn children by throwing them in the Nile River. The pair called on religious teachers to inform citizens of Israel that “biblical prohibition to kill fetuses in their mothers’ wombs.”