Thursday, February 10, 2011

Is abortion a Rabbinic decree or a Torah Prohibition?

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I am going to interrupt our series of reasons for the abortion “prohibition” to deal with a fundamental issue that many of the poskim have t...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Is it a Waste? The opinion of the Chavos Yair

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We now move on to another very famous and important teshuva on the topic of abortion, and a fascinating question that many poskim have dealt...
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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Can Abortion be Considered Stealing from the Fetus?

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As we plow through the various issurim (prohibitions) that have been suggested as possible origins for the prohibition against abortion, we ...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Abortion as Gezeilah - Can a Fetus be Considered Property?

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We will now move on to the next reason why abortions may be prohibited, the prohibition of gezeilah, or stealing. This is to be differentiat...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Abortion as Chavallah of the Fetus

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In our last post we discussed the suggestion of the Maharit that the reason for the prohibition against abortion is due to chavalah of t...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Abortion as Chavalah - Wounding the Pregnant Mom

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Now that we have placed the two big "conundrums" behind us, we can move on in our quest to describe and list the many reasons that...
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Sunday, January 23, 2011

The Second Conundrum, What does the Rambam Hold?

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The second conundrum that I am obligated to discuss before we move on is the opinion of the Rambam.  For starters, the Rambam clearly does r...