Footnote
h The Appeal adds: “We demand that anyone, whether out of religious conviction or humanitarian feelings, be legally allowed to insist that no autopsy or dissection be performed on his—or his relative’s—body after death (granting the exceptions practiced in the United States, such as in cases of suspicious death or dangerous epidemics.)”
On May 4, 1967, the New York Times published, on page 6, an article headed “American Rabbis in Israel Ask U.S. Protection on Autopsies,” the article being datelined “TEL AVIV, Israel, May 3.”
See also Dr. (Rabbi) Immanuel Jacobovits’ book entitled “Jewish Medical Ethics,” edition of 1967, pages 97, 98, on the subject of “mutilation,” mentioning also the rite of circumcision and the boring of the ear of a faithful slave.