Avram
“nope, not my response at all.” It certainly was here.”
ah but in “anticipating” my response you ignored my actual response:
My response is did they say there was a medical risk? Or legal?
and if medical risk, risk of what ?
BTW to answer your question
“so how can we really see the impacts of 26 hours sans food and water when the weaker pregnant women are fasting in measures?”
The answer is in Israel.
Other than an uptick in births on and after Y”K there is no uptick in bad outcomes.
although many would get a heter if asked a Rav, many don’t ask and fast