Jewish conservative radio broadcaster, author, and commentator Michael Medved has a friend who is an Orthodox rabbi. This rabbi and his wife have 18 children.
The rabbi told Medved how some years back, when he had 16 children, he and his family were coming through Frankfurt airport. A German woman approached and asked in amazement about his large number of children.
The conversation ended when she asked to the effect, “How many for you would be enough?” And the rabbi replied, “About six million.”
Medved repeated this story to The Chronicle as an illustration of why he contends it is not in the Jewish community’s interest to be so intensely pro-choice on the issue of abortion.
“I mean, here we [American Jews] are, with our 1.2 percent of the [U.S.] population, and our declining communities everywhere, and people say, ‘Oh yeah, we have to worry about too many babies’? That’s the opposite of what we have to worry about,” he said.
Medved, who is based in Seattle, speaks to pro-life/anti-abortion organizations throughout the country. He was in Milwaukee on April 5 as featured speaker at the Wisconsin Right to Life Education Fund Annual Dinner and Auction, which took place at the Frontier Airlines Center.
In an interview with The Chronicle earlier that day at the WISN radio station, from which Medved did his broadcast, Medved said he speaks to such organizations because they “exist by and large to try to discourage abortion and to do everything they can to promote what they call a culture of life, which I enthusiastically support. I think it’s better for the country and I think it’s better for Jews.”
But then why is the majority of the U.S. Jewish community “insanely” opposed to the pro-life movement? Medved believes it is because “most of the pro-life side is so decidedly Christian. And a lot of Jewish people tend instinctively to view Christians who are serious about Christianity as the enemy.”
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