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Organizations providing fertility services must navigate carefully when Jewish law seeks to protect the mother's life but contravenes local statutes prohibiting abortion
Animated by concerns about fertility, Israel will pay for any infertile couple to have two children through IVF, no matter how many rounds it takes. In the US, it can cost about $20,000 per round.
The new legal landscape surrounding reproductive health threatens to affect organizations that emerged in recent years to help Jews fulfill the biblical mandate to be fruitful and multiply.