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From: mphw@mhuxm.UUCP (M. Z. Krumbein)
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Subject: Re: Jewish concept of "nefesh"
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Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 19:02:36 EST
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> 
> 1. The Oral Tradition prescribes 30 days from birth before a newborn is
> 	considered a nefesh. A newborn who dies without having lived on
> 	earth for 30 days is not mourned.

As far as I remember, a person who kills a healthy child is liable
to capital punishment, though the child was  just born.

Calling abortion (on demand) murder (or close to it) is not precisely 
foreign to Jewish tradition.

What you said about mourning is true (stardard halachic practice, to the
best of my knowledge).

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