Abortion: Islamic and Jewish views on when a human soul enters a human fetus
abracad, · Categories: externally authored, religion, spiritual politicsby Rabbi Allen S. Maller
I am a Rabbi who frequently writes articles about the close connections between Judaism and Islam for Islamic web sites as well as for Jewish web sites; and 31 articles previously published by Islamic web sites are in my book ‘Judaism and Islam as Synergistic Monotheisms: A Reform Rabbi's Reflections on the Profound Connectedness of Islam and Judaism’.
The following article appeared this week on the Islamicity web site; and on The Times of Israel:
All the continuing political disputes over abortion in the USA and other countries ignore the fundamental religious issue: when does the fetus in the womb of a woman’s body become a human fetus? At conception it is a living physical body, but when does this soul become a spiritual human being? (more…)