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<DIV>In a message dated 9/21/2008, yadmoshe@012.net.il writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Igros
Moshe (Y.D. 2:74): Concerning inducing premature childbirth.<BR><BR>In my
humble opinion it is prohibited to induce premature childbirth <BR>because
childbirth in its natural time in the natural way is not <BR>considered a
danger at all.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>>>>>><BR>Well, I have to assume that this means in the
normal course of events. Also in modern times, maternal death is extremely
rare, so it's not considered a danger at all today -- having a baby today
is no more risky than driving a car, and maybe less so. But in the
past many women did die in childbirth or shortly thereafter, and that was
/before/ they knew how to induce labor. I remember a history or
English professor of mine who said that if you go to the old cemeteries in
England you will find a large number of graves of women who died in their
thirties, and then mostly the rest of the women in the cemetery died in their
seventies and eighties, like now. The /average/ lifespan was shorter than
today but that is because of high infant death -- and high maternal
mortality. If you got past the danger zone, you could live to be as old as
people do today. (That was true for men, too -- once they got to middle
age they typically lived as long as men do today.)</DIV></DIV>
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