A new study shows that no matter how strongly a woman’s pastor may rail, a woman will make up her own mind when her pregnancy goes awry or is unplanned. So here’s the common ground: make sure she has the best medical care.
Dennis S. Ross
Rabbi Dennis S. Ross is a religious advocate and congregational rabbi. He directs Concerned Clergy for Choice for the Education Fund of Family Planning Advocates of New York State, a project that mentors and mobilizes clergy into advocacy on behalf of access to reproductive health care including contraception and abortion care. Rabbi Ross also serves as a rabbi at Congregation Beth Emeth in Albany, N.Y.
Rabbi Ross is author of God in Our Relationships: Spirituality Between People from the Teachings of Martin Buber, and wrote Abortion and Judaism: Jewish Law and Rabbinic Opinion, both through Jewish Lights Publishing. Rabbi Ross has written for the New York Times, the Boston Globe and other publications, and has made numerous public and media appearances.
