It is forbidden to defy Him by tearing from the pure soul He creates and inbreathes the covering of flesh with which He clothes and shapes the nascent form. This G-dly work presents the process of gestation as part of life, choice and judgment. A tradition derived from these principles holds that G-d teaches the child the entire Torah in the womb and that an angel taps it above the upper lip before birth so that it has to be learned consciously and purposefully. This makes that part of life between birth and death a process of learning, remembrance and return to G-d. The pre-eminent 20th century decider of interpreting and applying Torah to everyday matters, Rabbi Moshe Soleveichik stated that abortion is murder.
Every soul takes part in rectifying the shattered light of creation.
Only if giving birth would kill the mother is it permitted to destroy the fetus, an exception that today might permit fifty, if that many abortions per year in America. It is a teacher of utter materialism and radical autonomy utterly at variance with Judaism. Consistent with the PP promotion of selfishness and family disintegration, Lieberman opposed requiring parents to be notified when their minor daughters seek abortions at federally funded clinics. Even darkness obscures not from You, for to You night is as luminous as day . He has not denounced the ruling of the Supreme Court June 28 in Stenberg vs. Carhart that infanticide is protected by the Constitution and beyond the rights of the people of a state to forbid.