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Take this for what it's worth, but my experience of my (liberal) Jewish heritage is that copious amounts of nuance is required in literally every argument, and

Take this for what it's worth, but my experience of my (liberal) Jewish heritage is that copious amounts of nuance is required in literally every argument, and often just literally directly opposing positions will be happily taken. My experience of it is that it's a philosophy that is very happy to both say "Abortion is completely wrong" and "Sometimes abortions have to happen". Trying to distill any of this down to hard facts or statistics is doomed to failure. There are ideological positions (sanctity of life), scientific positions (the point at which life begins) and pragmatic decisions (the weighing of two different lives), and that tension underpins all these different decisions.

ivraatiems 4y ago
This is my experience as well. And it is critical to maintain a separation between "I personally would not prefer my unborn child be aborted" and "nobody should be allowed to abort a child anywhere because abortion is equivalent to murder in all cases." You've gotta be comfortable holding both those thoughts in your head and realizing that your beliefs don't generalize to everyone. Judaism is littered with nuances and complexities that make it very different from other religious traditions that predominate in the US, for instance.