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PBA -“Health: Thank you for the medical advice. I hope you will defer to the relevant poskim of the relevant communities as regards the psak.
I’m serious: You talk of educating “communities”. If you think your information is relevant, why not just address it to their poskim. Haga atzmecha: If your posek, after hearing your info, told you to do it–wouldn’t you do it? So why does the community need the info? Why would they listen to you at all?”
They shouldn’t listen to me as opposed to their Rabbonim or even if they should they probably wouldn’t. And I would listen to my Rov over my opinion right now, but if I thought this was a very high risk of the baby catching the disease I wouldn’t listen, but then again I highly doubt my Rov would argue with me when it comes to anything medical.
So the difference is when it comes to me taking a risk alone (I’yH I’ll get remarried and have more boys and girls), as opposed to what should be public Jewish policy. No, my Rov is Not one of those. But the ones that do make public policies -you know the Kol Koray types, why don’t they ask medical advice about MBP? They actually had some Rabbonim that came out with some Kol Koray about this, but as far as I know they only got input from the Mohalim and possibly one Doc, which noone that I know of agrees with in the medical community.