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R’E – it must be noted that R Waldenberg does not subscribe at all to the wanton scorn for human life so prevalent amongst the abortion fanatics. He is only mattir in circumstances where the baby is going to suffer terribly due to disease r”l or the family will not be able to cope with a down syndrome baby or something to that effect. There is nothing in his teshuvos that remotely resembles that recklessness that people treat human life with bc of a hampering of a career decision etc. There is no zeicher in his psak of the rishus ‘a woman’s right to choose’. He is only mattir in very specific circumstances where the woman or rather family, will find it impossible to cope. (R Moshe argues even there).
You should frame the machlokes more clearly and not leave the false impression that the is a zeicher in halocho to the rishus called a woman’s right to choose. It simply doesn’t exist.
Avira – if tzitz eliezer is to modernish for you how about r Moshe shternbuch of the Aydoo charaydis. He is mattir when a woman’s mental health could be compromised ad kdai kach r”l that she would consider suicide.