--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" <awoelflebater@...> wrote: (snip) > http://jezebel.com/5919814/the-jewish-law-thats-keeping-ultra+orthodox-women-from-getting-pregnant
FWIW, it's interesting to read some of the comments on this from ultra-Orthodox women readers, including that the article was published in a magazine that takes an unfriendly stance toward the ultra-Orthodox; and that they have never personally heard of a woman having trouble becoming pregnant because of this rule. Also, they say rabbis do their best to find solutions that are caused by the conflict between two Halachic rules (in this case, the menstrual thing versus the *much* more important commandment to "be fruitful and multiply"). So there's more than one view on this.
