Abortion after rape
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First, I think abortion is murder (albeit of a fetus, less serious than regular murder) but murder doesn’t have to be wrong. We are persecutors, even potential murderers, we murder innocent civilians when it has a major impact on our security (like the bombing of Dresden or Japan), we disconnect terminally ill patients from machines, etc.
This is of course playing with fire and it is best to draw the line as far away from murder as possible. But I feel that in the case of rape, the murder (of a lower level of life) is legitimate. But I am not sure. The consequences of bringing the child into the world are understandable, so I will not elaborate.
PS: The kidnappings raised the question for me.
What is your opinion?
Rape is a very problematic situation for the mother, but in my opinion it does not justify murder. At most, you can tell the mother to give the child up for adoption or find another solution for her.
If I may intervene in the question. In reality as it is known today, it is clear to me that abortion is close to murder, and in the later stages of pregnancy perhaps even outright murder. But from a review of the Torah and halakhic treatment of fetuses, it seems that halakhically the status of the fetus is far from this. I am of course not referring to the recent poskim but to the Torah and the Sages, there are several places from which one can understand an almost disdainful attitude towards the death of a fetus. Does the rabbi believe that this is murder from a moral or halakhic perspective?
Search here on the site. I've answered this many times.
Maybe up to 40 days is good and appropriate to abort?
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