438 - Rabbi Berel Wein on professionalism, confidentiality and the halachot pertaining to it

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if you have been at our earlier lectures you may have seen it already i hope you don't mind seeing it again if you do it's only eight minutes obviously we'll remain nameless does not live in jerusalem lives in the city in the south has three children and found herself with her fourth pregnancy a very unwanted pregnancy her husband was unemployed or is unemployed she had decided that she would have an abortion she talked with her rabbitson about it the rabbitson handled it very well and the rabbitson handled it very well and tactfully and referred her to us we interviewed her we saw that there was financial need and that was the basic reason why she had decided to have an abortion we offered to help with a few hundred shekels a month and making up her lapsed kupatrim we were able to help her to choose what she herself wanted to do and that what she herself wanted to do and that is to have her baby today i got a call from this woman she is in her 41st week it's just a week beyond her doctor wants to induce the birth and she went to the hospital to do so and the hospital discovered that there's a 400 shekel dead outstanding from the last baby and they would not take her what's more she needed you know what they are and when she went to kupat hold him to get the kittavitch to have the inducement done they said wait there's a 600 shekel debt it's true you brought yourself up to date which is what we have done but you haven't paid since and of course the reason she hadn't paid since is because she needed food on the table there was a need for a thousand shekel in order for this woman now beyond her ninth month to have her

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