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simcha613
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Joseph- I don’t think that’s a fair statement. No one here wants to support infanticide. The fact is, there are legitimate poskim like the Tzitz Eliezer who give heterim for abortions in the very early stages for reasons other than danger to the mother. For example, he allows first trimester abortion of a fetus that would be born with a deformity that would cause it to suffer, and termination of a fetus with a lethal fetal defect such as Tay Sachs up to the seventh month of gestation.

If there is a bill that would allow abortion when a competent Rav permits it, and forbids all other abortions, I’m all for it. I don’t want Non-Jews having abortions that are assur to them. But if that option isn’t available, I would rather Non-Jews be allowed to have abortions that are forbidden to them if that means Jews are allowed to have abortions that are permitted to them, rather than the opposite. Like I said, it’s the lesser of two evils.