hfavr@mtuxo.UUCP (a.reed) (02/04/86)
> We don't even have to go to the USSR to talk the Holocaust revisited. > I'm sure some of the 15 million babies we have conveniently aborted > in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade (1-22-73) were being carried by Jewish > women. Their culture got stamped out before it even started... > > Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb} As a son of survivors, Mr. Brown, I find your attempt to trivialize the Holocaust, in which my older brother, all my grandparents and great-grandparents, and too many other relatives to count, were murdered by militant bigots, offensive and uncalled for. I am disgusted by your practice of posting your bigotry to net.religion.jewish. For your information, the Holocaust has to do with the murder of a living Jewish *soul or mind (nefesh)*. In the Jewish tradition, a newborn is not considered a nefesh until he or she has lived the prescribed number of days on earth. As Jews, we do not mourn fully for a spent sperm, an unfertilized egg, an embryo, or even a newborn who has not lived long enough to acquire a mind. If a Jewish woman's life is endangered by a pregnancy, she has not merely a right but a positive religious obligation to undergo an abortion. Rabbinical interpretations of what constitutes relevant danger to a woman's life differ in different Jewish traditions, so the woman should ask her own Rabbi for his judgement about the specific case. However, the suggestion that a non-Jewish political majority should determine under what conditions a Jewish woman can (or cannot) fulfill her obligations is pure bigotry. Please keep it out of net.religion.jewish. Adam Reed (ihnp4!npois!adam)