AviraDeArah, again, well said as to why we are concerned about laws as to non-Jews. I was not disputing the need to be concerned about this, btw.
What it comes down to for me is the issue of whether or not poskim actually limit their justification of abortion to the situations that lawmakers would if they had their druthers. Makes sense?
I’ll also add my belief that our society’s ethics and norms are only partially directed by laws. And in the case of contentious issues, including abortion, fighting about it politically can (and has) backfired. Partially as a result of fighting against abortion directly, abortion became more than half the population’s political and personal identity. So it doesn’t help/improve your first 2 points (lesaken olam and “society affects us”).
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