Kriyat Hatorah
Sholom U'Vracha. We spent a wonderful week together on the ship from Rome several weeks ago and the Sheila came up if Yechidim can make
are there any halachik problems with donating the placenta after delivery for medical research?
1. Body parts from a dead body require burial and are prohibited to benefit from; body parts from a live body are permitted. Complete limbs, however, should be buried; one reason is to prevent priests from defiling to them. (Y.D. 349:1; Pischei Teshuva 362:1; Igros Moshe Y.D. III:141)
2. Nonetheless, body parts from a live person should be disposed of in a respectful manner. Medical research and training is considered a respectful purpose. (Tzitz Eliezer vol. 10, #25:8[10])
3. In the particular instance of the placenta, the Talmud Yerushalmi mentions the practice to bury it, “to serve as collateral for the earth,” cited by Mishna Berura (330:24). However, this does not seem to be an absolute halachic requirement, but rather a proper practice (Tzitz Eliezer vol. 10, #25:8[9]), and the common practice nowadays is not to bury it. (Gesher Hachaim, vol. I, ch. 16, 3:3) Therefore, it is permitted to donate the placenta for medical research.
4. See also Lev Avraham, by Dr. A.S. Avraham, 36:9 and 42:16, and IRP Responsa #3950.
Rabbi Meir Orlian
Sholom U'Vracha. We spent a wonderful week together on the ship from Rome several weeks ago and the Sheila came up if Yechidim can make
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