Reply To: Abortion politics

lesschumras,

I’m not an abortion advocate but please don’t equate a fetus with a person. I may be wrong but doesn’t halacha treat the fetus differently in that if it dies less than 30 days after birth, there is no Shiva?

Not sitting shiva for an infant under 30 days has nothing to do with personhood. A baby from a miscarriage or stillbirth is still given a name and a bris (if male and possible), and is buried in a Jewish cemetery. And Jews certainly hold that a fetus has a soul (hence the naming).