Listening to NPR on my drive through rural Iowa yesterday, I was struck by a discussion about the supposed threat to fertility treatments because of the Dobbs decision reversing Roe v. Wade. Theoretically, the program suggested, in vitro fertilization could become illegal because it involves destroying embryos, and some states have stated that life begins at conception.
The whole discussion struck me as paranoid. And, indeed, both the Biden administration and the left-wing media are fueling this paranoia. They can't deal with the essence of the Dobbs decision -- that abortion is problematic because it involves a potential human life -- so they are running around trying to scare everyone. We're going to lose contraception; women won't be able to travel across state lines; red states are going to spy on personal health data.
On the latter point, the White House is even advising women to delete certain apps from their phones. Pure hysteria.
None of this is going to happen. Republicans are talking about a nationwide ban on abortion -- after 15 weeks, which is more or less the international standard.
The parade of horribles is simply designed to scare people into voting Democrat. Shameful, really.
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
