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288: A MARRIED NON-
JEWISH WOMAN,
LIVING WITH
ANOTHER MAN AND
SEEKING FERTILITY
T R E AT M E N T

ɳ Question

1. A non-Jewish woman quarreled with her husband and now lives
with another non-Jewish man, without having divorced her husband.
She came to a Jewish physician, requesting that he treat her for fertil-
ity. Is he allowed to help her?

2. A pregnant non-Jewish woman asks a Jewish physician to per-
form an abortion for economic reasons or for reasons of comfort. Is
the Jewish physician allowed to do this? Is he allowed to refer her to
a non-Jewish physician?

3. We have a clinic in which I am a partner, as well as three non-Jew-
ish physicians. Am I allowed to refer men who request sterilization
by cutting the spermatic ducts (vasectomy) to my partners? They
themselves refer them to another non-Jewish surgeon.

Dr. Shlomo Mordechai Rothenberg,
Gateshead, England

ɳ Response to Question One

Regarding the first question, the halachah also needs to be clarified
were such a situation to chas veshalom arise with a Jewish woman. We

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