[Avodah] [Areivim] Halachic Infertility, or, Abolishing Shivah Neki'im

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, December 11, 2006 4:57 am, R Moshe Yehuda Gluck wrote to Areivim:
: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/798797.html

For a more serious discussion, see
<http://www.yoatzot.org/article/77> -- Halachic Infertility - Diagnosis
<http://www.yoatzot.org/article/63> -- Treatment

There are ways of shortening the time until a hefseiq taharah as well. But if
all else fails, there have been pesaqim lequlah -- at least before IVF. Now
that a couple can produce a baby without violating minhag yisrael, as IVF-H
involves simpler halachic issues (donation for the purpose of procreation)
than eliminating 7 neqiim, I do not know if those teshuvos are still applied.

But finding a doctor who wants to do away with minhag yisrael altogether is
just a Haaretzism, and an Areivim discussion if anywhere.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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