Lior: But some poskim allow abortions for other reasons as well (even such as mamzerim, mental health, etc.) and such exemptions wouldn’t be allowed under pro-life legislation.
I’m highly sympathetic to pro-life camp, but it seems problematic to think of implementing laws that outlaw the implementation of certain halachic opinions by recognized poskim. Ideally, shouldn’t people be legally able to abide the rulings of their Rav? Isn’t that why Rav Moshe himself said we should be pro-life?
As far as toevah marriage is concerned, there’s no way to overturn it in the current climate, because the majority of NY state public approves of it. If we want to change it we have to change the population’s mind first, outside the elections process. Given this reality, it makes sense to approve candidates even we disagree with them on pretty fundamental things — we just have to decide what the most important issues (that is, practical issues with a change of being changed in teh near future) are to us, and vote or endorse accordingly.