Ah, yes, Jezebella, but don’t you realize that more unintended pregnancies are good for the economy? Feast your eyes on this from one of my state’s loudest fundegelicals:

http://www.voicescarryblog.com/476/

So now my body is enslaved to blastocysts AND the economy. Oh happy day! Fuck.

This site is a good overview of the relevant texts and opinions related to abortion:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/jud_abor.htm

This is a much more complex dealing with the issue:
http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/Cavalier/Forum/abortion/background/judaism1.html

Let me state up front that these views are NOT entirely in accordance with rad-fem views on abortion – while I as a rad-femmer would say that abortion on demand is necessary and good and that a woman as a human being has a fundamental right to make such decisions for herself without consulting anyone else, this is not the view supported by these sources. Rather, they deal with the classification of fetuses as part of a woman’s body rather than separate entities, “potential lives” rather than human lives requiring the protection other human lives require, and the idea that a woman’s life or emotional well-being always takes precedence over the potentiality of someone else’s life. Also, there’s an idea here that abortion is not simply permissible but REQUIRED in certain circumstances, because you’re not allowed to let a woman die if killing the fetus would save her (even if the way she would die would be by suicide).

Thus, a fertilized egg should not be able to hold hostage another person, i.e., the mother, thereby creating a grave risk of serious bodily injury or death to the mother. If the fertilized egg insists on this unwelcome invasion of the mother’s body, the mother should be able, i.e., have the right to personal bodily integrity, to act in self-defense, even with deadly force, against that grave risk of serious bodily injury or death.

Otherwise, a mother has a lesser ability to protect herself from a grave risk of bodily harm or death than a person who thinks a burglar is on his deck trying to steal his barbeque grill. (In many states, if you’re home and think someone is trying to burgle your home, you get to shoot them. yeehaw.)

“FWIW, my DBH is seriously thinking about RISUG. I suspect there are more men than would admit it who really would like some birth control besides a condom or a vasectomy.”

Funny how RISUG isn’t mentioned at all in US media. I never heard of RISUG before today, and I can’t find a single mention of it in Google News. It also sounds like development of the drug is being stalled. Looks like the P is fighting hard against that one!

Ha!