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Dr. Bobsky
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2022-05-04, 13:05

More to the point: echoing what Capella has already said: Judaism values the life and wellbeing of the mother over any fetus. Forcing a Jewish woman to bear a child to the point of physical or emotional injury or death is a violation of her constitutionally protected right to practice her religion by devaluing her life. This doesn’t pass the sniff test.

Edit: I want to be absolutely clear on this: life for Jews doesn’t begin at egg fertilisation or implantation, it begins at birth; but we don’t even bother naming newborns until they’re over a week old because the likelihood is that they would die. There is no handwringing about this: women are encouraged to consult their elders and rabbi for counselling not to discourage them, because the religion has long recognised this is a fucking hard choice that the woman makes herself because it is her body and existence that are at risk.
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