NEW YORK, Oct 21 (LSN) The first revision of the “Rabbi's Manual” for Conservative Jews since 1968 has revised the book to accept abortion but retains it's condemnation of euthanasia and assisted suicide. The new book contains a post-abortion ritual, which says “You made a choice, choosing life for (mother’s name), for the two of you as a couple, for your family, for the well-being of children yet to come into your lives. We grieve with you over the loss of this seed of life, and we affirm your essence as people gifted with the ability to nurture other life.” In a section on the Conservative Jew's living will the manual declares “I unequivocally reject any form of active euthanasia (‘mercy killing’) or assisted suicide.” One of the editors of the manual, Rabbi Perry Raphael Rank of Springfield, N.J. said the book is intended “to help a rabbi meet the contemporary needs of the congregants he or she serves, always drawing on the sources of our tradition.” The Conservative branch of Judaism calls itself a middle ground between Orthodoxy and Reform.
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NEW RABBI MANUAL OKAYS ABORTION BUT NOT EUTHANASIA
NEW YORK, Oct 21 (LSN) The first revision of the “Rabbi's Manual” for Conservative Jews since 1968 has revised the book to accept abortion but retains it's condemnation of euthanasia and assisted suicide. The new book contains a post-abortion ritual, which says “You made a choice, choosing life for (mother’s name), for the two of you as a couple, for your family, for the well-being of children yet to come into your lives. We grieve with you over the loss of this seed of life, and we affirm your essence as people gifted with the ability to nurture other life.” […]
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