“Our Jewish brothers and sisters,” squad member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explained during a recent rant, “are able to have an abortion according to their faith.” Many religions, the congresswoman goes on, do not share the “fundamentalist Christian” definition of life. They too have a right to exercise their faith, and to stand in their way is “authoritarian” and “theocratic.”
Ocasio-Cortez is a perfect strawman for this piece because she completely misunderstands not only the Jewish position on abortion but religious freedom, as well.
For one thing, does AOC, who is purportedly Catholic, believe that Pope Francis – who, like every pontiff in history, views abortion as “murder” – is a “Christian fundamentalist”? Perhaps. Read more…
