<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The article on medicine and halacha in which they bring Rav Mordechai</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Eliyahu</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">'s opinion that if the couple is childless they should be</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">encouraged to use artificial means (assuming there is no medical reason</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">not to). If they have children but are having trouble having more</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(something known) then there is no reason not use the treatment.>></span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">However, it bstates explicitly in the article that R. Eliyahu said that one is NOT required to use IVF.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Again some poskim feel that one is not yotze the mitzvah of pru urevu with IVF (or even AI) and so according to them one is certainly not required to use IVF<br clear="all"></font><div>
<br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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