Reply To: For Avram in MD

Avram: There’s a reason I couched it in Halachic terms. Not every cultural norm is valid. Putting elders on ice throes is murder. Post-birth abortion is murder. But saying that Ubbar Yerech Imo Hu and that there might be situations where one can harm himself for his own good isn’t beyond the pale. Those that hold like R’ Moshe won’t apply it. But others will. And secular people who hold that the difference between personhood and not is birth certainly have a leg to stand on.