Judaism and Abortion

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This paper offers unbiased research on different sects of Judaism and their views on abortion. The author quotes literature, recognized rabbis and scholars and their calculated perspectives on abortion, the fetus and its right to life.

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"Although Judaism does not assign the same status to the unborn human as to life after birth, this is far from taking the feminist perspective, that the fetus is an appendage of the mother, merely a bit of tissue (Feder pp). Various Jewish authorities refer to the fetus as "germinating life" or "nascent life" (Feder pp). Lord Immanuel Jakobovits, former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, who has written extensively on medical ethics, observes that "The destruction of an unborn child is a grave offense, though not murder" (Feder pp). The late Rabbi Seymour Siegel, a professor at Conservative Judaism's Jewish Theological Seminary, noted that "the Talmud speaks of the fetus in it mother's womb joining in praise of the Almighty" (Feder pp)."

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