Moral Concerns About Vaccine Research Using Embryonic Stem Cells
Release Date: 08/01/2020
Jewish Pro-Life
We share a Daniel Greenfield article that contrasts Jewish leadership's vigorous public condemnation of the Floyd death and their deafening silence about the defacement of synagogues, institutions and schools by BLM rioters in Los Angeles that took place following Floyd's death, and their silence on the widespread use of abortion in Jewish culture.
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Hadassah Medical Center benefits financially from pregnancy termination and human embryonic stem cell research. These activities at Hadassah Medical Center in Israel defy common sense in the light of the Jewish State's national security concerns and demographic challenges. Instead of killing Jewish babies, the infertile couples could adopt them! Rabbi Norman Lamm warns against abortion. Torah portion Naso.
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Pro-Life Torah Shavuot, an annual celebration of the miracles at Mt Sinai that offers the Jewish people a yearly opportunity to recommit ourselves to the Ten Commandments and our Torah. Many life affirming messages come to us through God's revelations at Mt Sinai, among them the prohibition against murdering innocent human beings, and the insistence that we guarantee the transmission of these holy principles by inculcating our children with them.
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We start this episode looking at a webinar hosted by The National Council of Jewish Women(NCJW) called, The Jewsh Case for Abortion Access: Discussion, Study and the Launch of the NCJW Abortion and Jewish Values Tool Kit. The Kit is a bundle of propaganda meant to convince Jews and Gentiles that abortion is legal and normative in Judaism.
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Our virtual Rally For Life on January 29, 2021 connected, inspired and motivated our pro-life Jewish community! We featured four Rabbis and other Jewish speakers who came together to proclaim that Judaism is the Original Pro-Life Religion!
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Samuel dies this day in Jewish history, so we examine his miracle conception, unlikely birth, and extraordinary life. What about all the babies who never are born because they die in an abortion? We will never know the destiny and contribution to this world of millions and millions of people. Each one counts, and so we share an essay from the Meaningful Life Center on this week's Torah portion, Bamidbar in the book of Numbers where HaShem orders various censuses of his children because each one counts.
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The holiday of Shavuos, when Jews celebrate the anniversary of receiving the Torah at Mt. Sinai. To prepare for this holy day, we highlight the miracle of life, given by the Almighty Creator who gave us the holy book of life, the Torah. We shared about the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) providing 1000 free abortions last year. If the Israeli government only offers killing Jewish children as the solution to unplanned pregnancy, we need to provide outreach for adoption and pregnancy care to these parents.
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Bonnie Chernin, Liz Gabert, and Alice Lemos join me to talk about being Jewish and pro-life. We share about when and why we identified as pro-life and our experiences sharing our message within and outside the Jewish community. We explore politics, the history of the pro-life movement, anti-Semitism, and finding a place in Jewish culture and religion.
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Rabbi Shlomo Nachman sits down for an interview to talk about his outspoken defense of life. Rabbi Nachman speaks freely about the abortion issue with us just as he does with his congregation in his online shul, BeitEmunah.org. Rabbi Nachman joined our board of directors in the fall of 2019 and has been an invaluable resource for rabbinical counseling for abortion minded Jewish women as well as Jewish women who suffer after abortion.
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W delve into the tragedy of the loss of Jewish life in Israel due to abortion. The Israel Defense are tasked with safeguarding Jewish life in Israel, but currently it provides unlimited contraception and abortions to its service members, resulting in 1000 abortions per year, killing more Jews than does its enemies . We share about Efrat, a pregnancy care organization in Israel, and for the need for a pro-life educational movement in Israel to introduce a life affirming view of gestational children.
info_outlineThe drive to design a COVID-19 vaccine calls attention to the moral concerns about vaccine research using embryonic stem cells, which destroy a human life in the embryonic stage of development. We share two stories about Pluristem Therapeutics, an Israeli biotech company working to produce a vaccine using placental cells, an ethical alternative to embryonic stem cells. We study Power Point slides #25 What Does Rabbi Bleich Say?, and #76 The Use of Language Medical Research. We close the episode with the meditation for today's Omer count. Aired 4/15/20.
Preliminary Data from Pluristem’s PLC Cell Program Shows Promise in COVID-19 https://www.biospace.com/article/preliminary-data-from-pluristem-s-plc-cell-program-is-promising-in-covid-19/
Stem cells from a baby’s placenta may save life of coronavirus victim in NJ. https://nypost.com/2020/04/13/could-stem-cells-from-a-babys-placenta-treat-covid-19/#content-wrapper
Moral Implications of Human Fetal Cell Lines in Vaccine Production. https://thevaccinereaction.org/2019/10/moral-implications-of-human-fetal-cell-lines-in-vaccine-production/
Counting the Nightly Omer https://learnemunah.com/holidays/omercount.html.
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