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Maternal–fetal conflict, Moses Maimonides, and the Christian Church
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Editor—In his elucidative series Perinatal Lessons from the Past, Professor Peter Dunn concludes that, according to Moses Maimonides, in the case of the conflict between the life of a woman and her fetus, the life of the mother should take precedence and that this advice was in contrast to the teaching of the Christian Church.1
No doubt, Christianity firmly opposed the …