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"And, while the matter is not free from controversy, there are rabbinic opinions that allow abortion when the pregnancy seriously jeopardizes the mother's health. But those narrow exceptions do not translate into some unlimited "mother's right" to "make her own reproductive choices" — the position Hadassah enthusiastically trumpets.
Moreover, in the specific context of "intact dilation and extraction" — to use the Times's preferred nomenclature [regarding the procedure prohibited by the Supreme Court]— Jewish law certainly confers no right to kill a live baby whose head, or most of whose body, has already emerged [from the Mother's womb]. Indeed, once birth has already occurred, Jewish law makes clear that the newborn child has no less right to live than does the mother. Stated simply, what the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act prohibits is, in the eyes of Jewish law, little if anything short of murder."
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