Q&A: Abortions — How Good
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Abortions — How Good
Question
http://davidson.weizmann.ac.il/online/maagarmada/general_know/the-other-side-of-it-all/
Does this lead the Rabbi to support abortions?
Seemingly, it would save humanity.
Answer
You could also execute all criminals, or shoot anyone about whom there is a rumor that they are about to commit a crime. That sounds to me much more justified and also much more effective. This is nonsense.
Discussion on Answer
Everything I wrote would also help the world. No studies are needed for that. Why are you dismissing my suggestions?
I didn’t understand.
Serious people checked and found that not having abortions does real harm in the world.
Why is the Rabbi dismissing that?
Like the midrash about the Jewish children whom Pharaoh embedded in bricks, and Moses cried to God, “Why have You done evil to this people?”
God said to him: Take one and test it.
He took one child out of the bricks.
And in the end he was wicked — he caused the Jewish people to sin and brought Micah’s idol through the Red Sea…