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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: mel221 who wrote (81219)7/3/2018 5:52:59 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 355713
 
"It could be as simple as 'When the fetus the birth canal and takes its first breath, it is a person with rights'".
You can even bump that up to when a limb pops out.

Abortion and Judaism

Let us first establish the time that a fetus legally acquires the status equal to an adult human being. The Talmud states in part that if the “greater part was already born, one may not touch it, for one may not set aside one person’s life for that of another.” Thus the act of birth changes the status of the fetus from a nonperson to a person (nefesh). Killing the newborn after this point is infanticide. Many Talmudic sources and commentators on the Talmud substitute the word “head” for “greater part.” Others maintain the “greater part” verbatim. Maimonides and Joseph Caro also consider the extrusion of the head to indicate birth. They both further state that by rabbinic decree, even if only one limb of the fetus was extruded and then retracted, childbirth is considered to have occurred.

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