“However if the law made abortion illegal”
To be fair, Astorino has stated publicly that he will not seek changes to New York’s abortion law, which was enacted in 1970 by a Republican legislature and signed by a Republican governor and made almost all abortions legal.
” as such obviously far more severe.”
Chazal say that cheating in business is a worse sin than sexual sins, as you can atone for a sexual sin but you can never atone for cheating lots of customers. The Torah calls both male-male sex and cheating in business a toeiva.
“Most pro-lifers are Bible Belt Christians who hold that you cannot kill the fetus even to save the mother.”
The evangelicals will generally accept an abortion to save the life of the mother. However, the Catholic church, which outnumbers the evangelicals worldwide by something like 10 to 1 or more, would require the mother to die. It has managed to make that the law in several Latin American countries and women are in fact dying as a result. (Plus, see my next comment.)
Few evangelicals I’ve ever heard of, however, will allow abortions for some of the reasons that are mutared by sumerous poskim such as mental health or genetic defects.
“Tim Tebows mother was a missionary in the Phillipines “
The Republic of the Philippines is one of the countries where all abortions are illegal, even when the mother will die.
I’m not sure why they needed missionaries in the Philippines — the country is one the most devoutly Christian countries in the world.