[Avodah] Abortion is not Murder

[Rabbi Meir G. Rabi]

The 7MBN are categories which embrace many more than 7.

It is not a case of Avos and Tolados but general guidelines that embrace a
very broad spread.

Thus destroying an embryo falls within although is not Retzicha.

The proof that HaAdam is a descriptor and not a definition is compelling
from other parts of Shas, AniYim BeMaKom Echod …... they have already been
elaborated in this discussion. Does anyone suggest that a Y who dispatches
a foetus is tried by BD as a Rotzeach? Or even before it is 30 days old?


Re illustration from Ben PeKuAh:

If anything the parallel to Ben PeKuAh suggests that an Ubbar is not an
independent life, since the BP has no need for Shechitah, it is K even if
it is UN-Shechtable i.e. not yet 8 months, or is dead or is chopped up,
similarly BP is not disqualified by Treifos nor is its Cheilev nor its Gid
Assur.

Clearly it is not a being like its mother which is inside its mother, it is
BeHeima BaBeHeima although it is not defined but only described as a
BeHeima.

Best,

Meir G. Rabi
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