Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » David Shabtai http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Wed, 22 May 2013 20:06:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Jewish Perspectives on Bioethics: Post-birth Abortion and Other Fictions http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-perspectives-on-bioethics-post-birth-abortion-and-other-fictions/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-perspectives-on-bioethics-post-birth-abortion-and-other-fictions/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:53 +0000 David Shabtai http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=127824 The recent murder convictions in Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s trial for killing just-born infants sparked outrage and disgust from both sides of the “pro-life” – “pro-choice” debate. Could these gruesome atrocities really be taking place in our society? In reality however, such actions are not limited to ‘back-alley’ physicians of ill repute. Articles in prestigious medical [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-perspectives-on-bioethics-post-birth-abortion-and-other-fictions/feed/ 1 Jewish perspectives on bioethics: Questioning certainties http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-perspectives-on-bioethics-questioning-certainties/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-perspectives-on-bioethics-questioning-certainties/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 03:29:21 +0000 David Shabtai http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=115894 A little while ago, another case of a brain dead patient waking up made the medical news rounds. Brain death is supposed to describe a patient whose brain is so completely devastated, that they are irreversible unconscious, cannot control even their most basic reflexes, and cannot breathe on their own. Nonetheless, although quite rare, this [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-perspectives-on-bioethics-questioning-certainties/feed/ 1 Jewish perspectives on bioethics: What it means to be alive http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-perspectives-on-current-bioethics-what-it-means-to-be-alive/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-perspectives-on-current-bioethics-what-it-means-to-be-alive/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:50:24 +0000 David Shabtai http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=109248 Pregnant at 13 weeks, Tamara Mann was told that tragically, her fetus would not survive (she tells her story here). She opted to terminate the nascent pregnancy early, but since the fetus had already developed a heartbeat, her insurance company and the state of Ohio characterized the termination as an elective abortion. That designation brought [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-perspectives-on-current-bioethics-what-it-means-to-be-alive/feed/ 6 Misplaced priorities http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/misplaced-priorities/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/misplaced-priorities/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:07:56 +0000 David Shabtai http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=32644 Most countries have elaborate algorithms to allocate organs for transplant when they become available, but Israel has gone too far. In all other countries, criteria are primarily based on how sick potential recipient are and how long they have been waiting for an organ. The goal is to maximize the life-saving potential of every available [...]

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