Rationalist Medical Halacha

This is the start of a new series in this blog, one which has been on my mind for quite some time, and one which has been on my mind for qui...

Today’s post is a result of years of research and reading, a career full of practical experience, pondering the three thoughts that I told y...

Everything we have discussed until now regarding the topic of abortions in halacha, represents the traditional Halachic approach to this sub...

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...

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...

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...

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...