Reb E, halacha considers abortion murder for yidden. There is talk if there’s a difference before 40 days(the time chazal say the neshoma enters the body), and for goyim it would be at any age. But even for goyim, an uber has to be called an uber, which is somewhat subjective and therefore conception is a good place to stop. Goyim often use the line of “it’s not a baby, it looks like a fish”, and they say that the burden of proof of what’s considered alive falls on us who wish to forbid. That argument is not only evil, vut very unintelligent – they’re saying you can kill as long as it’s not proven if something is alive, instead of not killing as long as you cannot prove that it’s not alive. It’s like if someone tells you that there’s a sleeping person aside 10 dead bodies, but you have no idea who’s alive and who’s dead. Abortion logic would be you can stab any of them because “who says this one is alive?”. No. You need to prove that the subject is NOT alive to allow anything.
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