[Avodah] IVF

[Eli Turkel]

Certainly your post referring to IVF was not along the lines
of "well if you hold that IVF is permitted then ..." - it took the line
"given the existence of IVF..." ie assuming IVF's halachic validity and
then wondering if it was better or worse to utilise IVF than heterim vis
a vis the shiva nekiim.  Not that I think this is wrong - I think we as
a society have poskened this way - and certainly Rav Moshe clearly holds
this way.  But it is not as axiomatic as all that.>>

I believe that the Tzitz Eliezer was very much against IVF.
In the very various newspaper hespedim they mentioned two
great disagreements betwwen RMF and R. Waldenberg one
involving IVF and one involving abortions of certain fetuses
with each posek beginning machmir in one and mekil in the
other. Of course trhere were other lower level disagreements between them

kol tuv


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Eli Turkel