Mon Jun 20, 2022 – 2:24 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — When the late Ronald Reagan assumed the office of the presidency in early 1981, one of the first groups clamoring for a meeting was a panel of Reform rabbis who wanted to discuss abortion.
Now, this could have been a beautiful moment in both American history, the U.S. then at age 205, and in Jewish history, then at age 3297. The Jewish People have fought for the rights of babies in the womb and after birth since the days of the Romans who allowed the father, as paterfamilias, to kill an unwanted baby within the first month of life. Back in those days, it took heroism to oppose this, yet the Jews, despite being newly exiled, disenfranchised, and seeing their Holy Temple burned to the ground, did not hesitate to risk their safety by sticking up for little Roman babies.
In a 2003 article in Commentary magazine, Natan Sharansky, himself a living symbol of the Jewish quest for freedom, cited this quote from on of the great Roman historians, Tacitus:
Among the Jews, all things are profane that we hold sacred; on the other hand, they
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