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Every Jewish woman has the power to make Jewish souls before giving birth. This has been the Orthodox Jewish view in the past, and remains the Halakah for all Orthodox Jews to this very day.
Abraham did not have this power. Abraham was the first Jew but he did not have a Jewish mother or a Jewish father. Since there were no other Jews to make him Jewish Abraham must have mit-ya-haid (see Book of Esther (9:17 & 27) self converted; but he and all his male descendants could not make any fetus Jewish pre birth.