Halachically Sanctioned Murder” — The Siamese Twins Case and R Moshe Feinstein’s Ruling 10 31 202

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yoel Plutchok’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay, Rabbi say, so last week we we spoke about um the abortion. We spoke about the and the went through the a little bit and a lot of the the discussion so to speak um particularly in centered on a Mishna and ol with San B that explained it and etc. We're not going to rehash that right now, but I wanted to go into I guess another Shila wanted to go into I guess another Shila that you could say is probably like a a first cousin of this Shila, meaning it's it's the same it's the same building blocks that make the Shila tick and it's another very famous case that involved. Now, the story in this one is a is a tragic and fascinating story. Um, the truth is that in the in the ASIO, which is like a a medical journal, they quote, they reprinted with permission the article from the Philadelphia Inquirer from October 16th, 1977. from October 16th, 1977. And it's a it's a fascinating article that describes the story. And additionally, it's a if you read the article, it's a tremendous Kdeshm um you see the doctor's tremendous adoration and respect for Misha. I want to quote a little bit of the story from the article and then we'll we'll move on to the Shiloh. Now the sh the story is as follows. In 1977 there was a set of twins born to a family in Lakewood. The father was learning in yeshiva I think at the time um a kil family. The twins

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1. 0:01Okay, Rabbi say, so last week we we spoke about um the abortion. We spoke about…
2. 3:03stethoscope, and quickly discovered that they were sharing a heart. Um once he discovered they were…
3. 6:06the baby that really only had a heart with two chambers, was unviable, could not live…
4. 9:09During the 11 days that it took Risha to come to this conclusion, several of the…
5. 12:15who asks as follows and he says as follows somebody has two heads which one of…
6. 15:23you know, anomalous and strange and that don't exist the way we see it by normal…
7. 18:27where they where they were connected and this person that I saw was walking around in…
8. 21:43the head is is much more modern medicine maybe you know even close to our days…
9. 24:49into baby's A baby A's heart. So baby A is artificially being kept alive from baby…
10. 28:04because this is it can't be because this is this is how it normally is. Now…

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