Medical Ethics
I had an abortion years ago. I did it to avoid shame, but instead I am riddled with guilt. Am I condemned to a life of guilty feelings?
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Am I permitted to put my life in danger to save another?
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How does Jewish law approach this topic? What are the expectations, and in what circumstances can confidentiality be overridden?
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The patient adamantly refuses treatment, preferring to die. Would halachah sanction his request?
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A patient has advanced metastatic cancer and the doctors believe she
will succumb. There is one new experimental treatment which may
possibly reverse the disease, but the treatment is dangerous,
and if it does not succeed it will kill her.
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