Sunday, February 27, 2011

Some Housekeeping and a Summary of Opinions

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Now that I have completed my compilation of the many varied explanations for the prohibition against abortion, I have to finish off with a l...

Other Poskim that Relate Abortion to Shefichat Damim (Murder)

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In our last post we began our discussion of the poskim who hold that abortion is prohibited due to the Torah prohibition against murder.   W...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Abortion as Murder - The Same Sources Lead to Opposite Conclusions!

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It is always fascinating how different scholars can often look at the same set of data and come to exactly opposite conclusions.  This is tr...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Moral and Ethical Arguments

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This post will take us into a new territory.   Anyone following this blog until now, would see that it is obviously unclear to the poskim ex...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Akin To Murder, But Not Murder, The Beit Yehuda and the Chofetz Chaim

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So far we have described two of the opinions that hold that the prohibition of abortion is rabbinic in origin. We described the opinion of R...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Waste Issue Revisited, and Rav Yaakov Emden

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In a previous post , we described the opinion of the Chavos Yair that the prohibition of abortion is due to the issur of hotza’at zerah leva...
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Monday, February 14, 2011

R' Palagi and R' Eliyahu Mizrachi - Abortion as a Rabbinic Decree

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Until this point, we have been searching for mekorot (sources) that explained that abortions are prohibited due to some issur (prohibition) ...