Alvin J. Reines, "Reform Judaism, Bioethics, and Abortion", Journal of Reform Judaism 37/1 (1990) 43-59.

The author, who maintains that Reform Judaism is a polydoxy, argues that such a view provides Reform with principles to resolve fundamental moral issues of bioethics and abortion. He contends that upon close examination the views of Orthodox Judaism and Roman Catholicism on, e.g., abortion reflect a diversity which, according to the author, support the Reform position that each individual possess ultimate authority to determine for him or herself if abortion is moral. See also the "Dialogue on Suicide and Abortion", Journal of Reform Judaism 37/4 (1990), 49-58, published in response to the Reines essay. (S.M.P.)