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  1. Yes, we're very much alike, Captain.

    Both proud of our ships.

    I pm'd hiway to ask if it was ok to use the same episode so closely...

    I'm sorry I should have posted it publicly, sorry.

    And I am also sorry to say the answer is incorrect...

    but Sharon says you saw Traxx, so I should be extra nice :biglaugh:

  2. ok...I'm new at this so be kind.

    (I am a conservative Jew, and thought someone would find this helpful)

    Exodus 21-22 says:

    When men fight, and one of them pushes a pregnant woman and a miscarriage results, but no other damage ensuse, the one responsible shall be fined according as the woman's husband may exact from him, the payment to be based on reckoning.

    "Other damage to the woman. Based on reckoning : perhaps reckoning the age of the fetus, but both this translation and the alternative"as the judges determine" are questionable. Halakhic exegesis infers that, since the punishment is monetary rather than execution, the unborn fetus is not considered a living person and feticide is not murder; hence abortion is permitted when necessary to save the mother."

    quoted from "The Jewish Study Bible"

    Traditionally, when the head of the newborn has completly emerged from the birth canal, Jewish law considers it to have status of a full human being. Jewish law insist apon abortion if the mother's life is endangered under the doctrine of pikuakh nefesh, saving a life. Many Rabbi's have extended this to to take into account the psycholgical damage a woman could suffer if giving birth to a severly deformed child.

    Please do not take this to mean that Jews "approve" of abortion, the argument that is a woman's right to control her own body does not apply as Jewish tradition states our bodies are on "bailment" from G-d, and should be treated as a temple. So "unwanted" or "accidental" pregnancies should not occur.

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