fetal reduction
When an IVF of several eggs produces healthy and unhealthy embryo's may the unhealthy ones (a gene known to cause cancer e.g.) be discarded? Or
Dear Rabbi
You are working in England as a UROLOGY RESIDENT -on call on Shabbat
I young goy comes in with a suspected torsion of his testicle.
The treatment of this is accepted as being:
He will need a general anaesthetic – the testicle suspected of being twisted is then explores – and either removed or untwisted and left in. It is then general practice to then fix (suture the testicle) the good testicle to prevent it from twisting in the future.
Now this is obviously going to be a big HALACHIK problem:
Doing issur de’oreita (stitching and drawing blood) for a non life threatening condition
Doing the same issur to prevent a similar problem happening in the future
Is it permitted?
A torsion of a testicle is life threatening if untreated because of the possibility of gangrene and septicemia. Since you are on call you have to operate. Your questions are very valid -which is why you must try and avoid being on call on Shabbat and Yom Tov by exchanging with a non-Jewish even if you have to do more than one day for every Shabbat that he does for you.
When an IVF of several eggs produces healthy and unhealthy embryo's may the unhealthy ones (a gene known to cause cancer e.g.) be discarded? Or
שלום.אני אחות במקצועי, עוסקת שנים רבות בטיפול בילדים ובבעלי מוגבלויות. לאחי הצעיר בת עם ליזאנצפלי כבת 6 שנים, ולפני שבוע אובחן בנו הקטן בן החודשיים
are there any halachik problems with donating the placenta after delivery for medical research?
האם מציאות החיים המודרנית משפיעה לרעה על פוריות הגבר, לאדם שבאופן עקרוני אין לו כל בעייה בתחום, דוגמאות- מזון מתועש ומעובד, או מלא בשמן מלח