The Abortion Debate

A rabbi, a lawyer, and a physician discuss one of the most provocative topics of the 21st Century

• The Legal History of Abortion in America
• The Talmudic View on Abortion
• Real-Life Stories from an OBGYN

Note: this is an educational program, focusing on Talmudic and US legal issues only; not on the often contentious political aspects of the topic.

Presenters:

Professor Mary Ziegler

Mary Ziegler is the Martin Luther King Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, and visiting Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School. She is one of the leading historians of the US abortion debate, and the author of several books about the law of abortion, including "Abortion and the Law in America: A Legal History, Roe v. Wade to the Present" and the award-winning, "After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate". She speaks frequently with the media, including the Atlantic, Fox News, MSNBC, the New Republic, New York Times, NPR, and the Washington Post, and has been a featured speaker on TED Talks.

Rabbi, Dr. Yitzchak Breitowitz

Rabbi Dr. Breitowitz is a Senior Lecturer in Jewish Ethics and Law at Yeshiva Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem and Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Maryland. He received his Rabbinical Ordination and Doctorate in Talmudic Law from the Ner Israel Rabbinical College, B.S. with honors from Johns Hopkins University, and J.D (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School. He has lectured extensively throughout the US and Israel on medical, business, and family ethics and is the author of numerous academic articles on US and Talmudic law. 

Dr. Hindi Stohl

Hindi Stohl, MD, JD is currently the Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine and the Associate Residency Program Director for Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is also the Chair of the hospital Medicolegal Committee at Harbor-UCLA and does medical-legal consulting and expert witnessing. Dr. Stohl completed her undergraduate training at Columbia University and medical school at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Johns Hopkins University followed by a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Dr. Stohl then completed a law degree at Southwestern Law School, after which she passed the California State Bar. She has lectured on a wide variety of medicolegal topics, especially as they relate to women's and reproductive health. Dr. Stohl  lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Rabbi Adir Posy, and her nine wonderful boys.