Viva Hammer was recently published to UCLA's Journal of Gender and Law with her article, “Birth Control Narratives: Jewish Women and the Law of Reproduction.”
The abstract highlights, “Jewish law has sustained a distinctive jurisprudence on reproduction and birth control throughout its history. Even when Jews lived as minorities within a Christian majority which prohibited birth control, Jewish authorities continued to advocate for its use to protect the lives of mothers and children, and to promote the cohesion of families. In Europe and the United States, Jews were pioneers in controlling births, and were ardent and outspoken adopters of new contraceptive methods.”
