“Abortion in Israel and the United States: A Lesson in Questioning Assumptions”

Sherri F. Colb writes at Findlaw: ” . . . To draw this conclusion, however, would be to miss important distinctions between how Judaism and Christianity (Catholicism, in particular) conceptualize abortion, and how the U.S. and Israel each treat the practice of terminating pregnancies. When Does Life Begin? At Conception, Versus At Birth . . . I place ‘life’ in quotations because here, the term refers to a value judgment, rather than an empirically verifiable observation about living and nonliving organisms.”