{"id":98352,"date":"2022-11-20T00:44:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T22:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98352"},"modified":"2022-11-20T00:44:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T22:44:20","slug":"good-things-come-in-small-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/good-things-come-in-small-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Things Come in Small Packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Good Things Come in Small Packages<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hashem often brings before me women who, for various reasons, wish to have an abortion, <em>rachamana litzlan<\/em>. I always try to impress upon them the severity of this sin. At any stage of pregnancy, when there is no risk of life involved, such a drastic step is tantamount to murder.<\/p>\n<p>Often, such women come at very early stages of their pregnancy. They claim that the fetus is so tiny, the size of a bean, and is not considered an actual being. How could aborting at this phase be so terrible?<\/p>\n<p>I reply, \u201cThis small one will yet grow big.\u201d Decades ago, they too, were nothing but a tiny bean. After nine months of pregnancy, they came into this world, whole and healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Only after long explanations and a lot of persuasion that this tiny embryo has the potential to become a son or daughter, just as successful as themselves, do they realize how wrong they were to contemplate aborting. In spite of the fetus\u2019 present small size, it holds great weight.<\/p>\n<p><em>A woman who has an abortion, at any phase, as well as those who assist her, have a terrible sin on their hands. They are considered killing a Jewish person. May Hashem, in His infinite mercy, take pity on those who have sinned and bring them back to teshuvah. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Things Come in Small Packages Hashem often brings before me women who, for various reasons, wish to have an abortion, rachamana litzlan. I always try to impress upon them the severity of this sin. At any stage of pregnancy, when there is no risk of life involved, such a drastic step is tantamount to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1067],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}