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Abortion

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Roe vs. Wade (the landmark
Supreme Court decision le-
galizing abortion nation-
wide).
"Whereas, what this would
do would be basically to deny
the choice, that women of
means currently have, to poor
women."
Marvin Wanetik of the PCC
calls the ballot question "an
important justice issue. I
believe that it's important to
protect freedom of choice for
women. Just as important,
it's unfair to attack the peo-
ple who can least defend
themselves and that's the
poor."
Rabbi Ernst Conrad, presi-
dent of the Michigan RCAR,
says, "The law entitles a per-
son to an abortion. We should
pay, as a state, for the abor-
tion expenses of indigent
women, since we already do
so for the wives of legislators
and teachers — public
employees" through state
health insurance, "a law that
will not be changed by ap-
proving Public Act 59. I
believe in poor people being
entitled to the same
privileges as others."
Many pro-abortion sup-
porters feel that Proposition
A is only the firt step on the
anti-abortionists' agenda.
Lois Grenadier of the NCJW
says, "If poor women are
denied the right of reproduc-
tive choice, it will just be a
matter of time before all
women in Michigan will be
deprived of that right:'
Although Orthodox Jews do
not share the belief of many
Catholics and others who con-
sider a fetus to be a living
soul, they are firmly anti-
abortion, except when the
fetus threatens the life of the
mother. Rabbi Elimelich
Goldberg of Young Israel of
Southfield says that view was
"codified by Rebbe Moshe
Feinstein, who declared it
(abortion) to be equivalent to
an act of murder on the un-
born fetus. This is the opinion
that we accept:' The view is
based on several passages in
Jewish law.
Rabbi Chaskel Grubner,
director of the Detroit Coun-
cil of Orthodox Rabbis, says
the council's position on abor-
tion is clear. "Abortion is con-
sidered an act of murder, the
killing of the child. The fetus
is life." But the council is not,
as a group, supporting Pro-
posal A because the proposed
law does not specify under
what conditions a fetus
threatens a woman's life.
If a pregnancy threatens a
mother, under Jewish law the
mother's life takes
precedence. Rabbi Grubner
compared it to a situation in
which a person is chasing

another
with
clear,
murderous intent. The in-
tended victim has the right to
defend himself. So, too, does a
mother who carries a fetus
which endangers her life.
"In the event the life of the
mother is involved," says
Grubner, "we consider that
the fetus is a rodef, something
trying to kill the mother, or
the nirdaf. But only in certain
individual cases is abortion
allowed. It's considered on a
case-by-case basis by a
recognized,
rabbinical
authority."
Jews who approve of the
right to an abortion, says
Goldberg, are "people who
don't base themselves on
Jewish Law, the secular
groups certainly and the non-
traditional groups that create

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A forum on the
abortion question
will be held 11
a.m. Sunday at
United Hebrew
Schools.

their own system of Jewish
Law. But Jewish Law is bas-
ed on what preceeded us. It's
pretty unequivocal that abor-
tion is wrong and it's only ap-
propriate where a mother is
actually threatened."
Goldberg stands by the
council in its decision not to
support Proposal A. But,
"Personally, I think that since
abortion is inappropriate,
then we should back
anything which will
eliminate the state acting as
an agent to promote abor-
tion."
Rabbi Conrad disagrees
with the Orthodox view on
abortion. He feels thereis no
clear message in Jewish
scripture which gives an opi-
nion on abortion, just a
reference to abortion in the
book of Exodus. "All the other
passages that the opposition
quotes, we do not interpret
the way they do. In other
words, there's no reference to
abortion, really, in our holy
scriptures.
"My stance is predicated on
the right of a woman to
dispose of the fruit of her
body. I as a man do not feel
that I should dictate to any
woman what she should do if
she is pregnant and she finds
that she is unable, for
psychological or medical
reasons, to carry the child to
term!'
The Jewish organizations
which oppose Proposal A do
so with varying degrees of
vigor. The most aggressive
group is the NCJW. They
worked in the initial petition

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