<div dir="ltr">I was thinking about this lately and would like to float the following idea:<div><br></div><div>There is a significant machlokes haposkim if Bnei Noach have to follow the rules and details of Sheva Mitzvos Bnei Noach outlined in the seventh perek Gemara Sanhedrin.</div>
<div><br></div><div>One position is that they have to while the other is that they can create their own rule-system within the general category of Sheva Mitzvos Bnei Noach as long as such a system is just. I believe that the former is the position Rambam and the latter is the position of the Ramah. </div>
<div><br></div><div>IMHO the second position makes sense, as one would not expect every society to give the death penalty for stealing one perutah.</div><div><br></div><div>If one is working within the framework of the second opinion, could one suggest that a society could determine what is and is not murder as long as such a position was just. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Given the significant legal, moral and scientific debates about abortion a society could either conclude that abortion was murder or abortion was not murder with substantial basis to their conclusion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Therefore, perhaps, even though Jewish law paskens that abortion if murder for Bnei Noach, a Bnei Noach society can determine for itself whether or not abortion was murder and if they determined that it was not, they would be justified within the framework of the rules of the Sheva Mitzvos Bnei Noach.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any thoughts or reactions?</div></div>