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The Orthodox Jewish view of abortion

By Alliance Alert

David P. Goldman writes at Spengler, a First Things blog: "Unlike the Catholic position, which proceeds from natural theology, the Jewish position emerges from the legal consideration of the human person, which requires the community to establish a distinction?and that distinction is the event of birth, the physical separation of the baby from its mother?s body. Rabbi Sacks emphasized that the Jewish and Catholic positions converge on nearly the same result, with the only distinction being abortion to save the mother?s life."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 21, 2009 (boomark / email).