direct quotes from R Zwiebels discussion in Tradition: note that, as I said before here, we are not supporting either extreme, and also the 3rd parthat we have to accept that freedom for us means also freedom for someone else who disagrees with us, so we don’t need to fight for every last
decision of our Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah that we should enter the legal fray a.. o dispel the notion, conveyed by various non-Orthodox and secular Jewish groups, that unfettered reproductive freedom (i.e., abortion on demand) was consonant with Jewish values.
we advanced three major points: (1) that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should be overturned; (2) that the right to abortion should nonetheless be preserved in the extraordinary case when the pregnancy threatens the mother’s life or where her religious beliefs require that the pregnancy be terminated; and (3) that Missouri’s legislative finding that the fetus is a human being from the moment of conception, which could jeopardize the right to abortion in situations where halakha would demand it, should be struck down as an unconstitutional establishment of religion.
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protection of the right to abortion where pregnancy threatens the mother’s life or where her religious beliefs mandate terminating her pregnancy could result in abortions in cases where halakha would not permit them: …However, under the American system of law, as R. Goldwasser correctly notes, “religious freedoms granted to one faith must be granted to all,” and sometimes the only way to ensure that our halakhic rights are legally protected is to extend such protection beyond the precise parameters of halakha. That is one of the realities of the imperfect world we inhabit as we await the arrival of Mashi’ah.