[Avodah] Must A Women Subject Herself To A Caesarean Delivery?

[Zev Sero]

On 8/02/2011 5:43 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 05:17:09PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
>> 1. The pikuach nefesh of one person can't be used to force another
>> person to put himself in even a little bit of danger.
> Etc...

> My point wasn't the conclusion, it's that the question wasn't even raised
> in order to get answered.
>
> You raise valid answers, and I presume a teshuvah would likely provide
> them. But here the question isn't asked, which to me suggests the
> possibility it doesn't exist. There are sevaros behind the issur of
> abortion other than retzichah. If knows what RSZA and RYSE mention in
> their discussions of abortion, we could resolve if that's why the topic
> is absent here.

I assume it's not asked because the actual topic is the woman choosing
not to get pregnant in the first place, so it's not relevant.  You're
focusing on what in this context is an afterthought by the Nishmas
Avrohom, about what RSZA would hold in a different case; since that
isn't the case under discussion he has no need to go into a full
discourse about it.

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