Mark Washofsky, "Abortion, Halacha and Reform Judaism" JRJ 28/4 (l981), 11-19, and the "Response" of Richard Alan Block, ibid., 19-22.

Washofsky asserts that Reform Judaism can call upon traditional legal sources to support a broadly liberal position on therapeutic abortion. Block's response asserts that the liberal position which allows for abortion on demand is not really compatible with traditional legal views. (S.M.P.)