Tshuvos and Poskim-If we could write fetal protection legislation-A conversation with Professor Rabbi Michael Broyde on Abortion

שאין זה הדבר השייך לממשלה ומדינה

כי זה ענין פרטי לכל אדם בעצמו

 והוא ענין הנוגע לתורה והלכה

של אמונתנו

Igros Moshe, Hashkafa 4 (at the end of volume 9) referring to end of life decisions

 

'With all the ink spilled over the possible overturning of Roe, and the possible return of abortion rights to the fifty states for regulation, it is surprising that not much has been written on the important Jewish law question: What is Halachic Judaism’s perspective on what the fetal protections should be in the secular legislation that is the hallmark of the United States Government?

Neither Roe, nor its repeal, exactly parallels Jewish Law.

If Rabbis,Poskim and Traditional Jewish Philosophers and ethicists could fashion the abortion law in America, what would it be?'

Michael Broyde

 

The Issur Ben Tzvi Hersh

Tshuvos and Poskim Shiur

presents a conversation with

 

 

one of the leading Jewish scholars of our day

Rabbi Michael J.Broyde

 professor of law at Emory University School of Law

 senior fellow and projects director

 at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion

 

 

Following Rav Moshe’s General Directives

Responsibility in a Free Republic

 Can we seek to enforce The Laws of Ben Noach ?

Rabbi Michael J. Broyde is professor of law at Emory University School of Law and senior fellow and projects director at the Center for the Study of Law andReligion at Emory University. Broyde's Semicha (yoreh yoreh ve-yadin yadin) was obtained in 1991 from Yeshiva University ,he was a Dayan of the Beth Din of America, where he also served as Menahel . He was the Founding Rabbi of the Young Israel of Atlanta. Rabbi Kivelevitz discusses with Broyde aspects of his newest work Settingthe Table: An Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein’s Arukh HaShulhan(co-authored with Shlomo Pill of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion) .The conversation serves as a cogent explication of how the Aruch HaShulchan differs essentially from the Mishna Brurah in aims and methodology. Rabbi Broyde's most recent books are Sex in the Garden: Consensual Encounters Gone Bad in Genesis(Wifpf & Stock, 2019),Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts, and Christian Panels: Religious Arbitration in America and the West(Oxford Press, 2017) andA Concise Code of Jewish Law for Converts(Urim, 2017). In addition to his many books, Broydehas written more than 250 articles and book chapters on various aspects of law and religion, Jewish law, and religious ethics, as well as an often-cited article on impeachment in theHarvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.He has written on military ethics from a Jewish law view, marriage and divorce in the Jewish tradition, bioethical dilemmas from a religious view, women’s rights in the Jewish tradition, the general relationship between secular and Jewish law in its many different facets. A list of his works may be found on hiswebsite.Broydehas been a visiting professor at Stanford,Hebrew University,and most recently theUniversity of Warsaw Law School in Polandand in theInterdisciplinaryCollege of Lawin Herzliya,Israel.He received a juris doctorfrom New York University and published a note on its law review. He also clerked for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 

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