SELECTED REFORM RESPONSA

course there are ways of studying the fetus today, even while it is in the mother's womb. These studies, chemical and x ray, that do not hurt child or mother and can be of great benefit to both are permitted, but anything that would destroy the life of the fetus after it is born and is no longer a danger to the mother would, of course, be prohibited.

* Solomon B. Freechof, Reform Responsa for Our Time, Hebrew Union College Press, 1977,#55.