“and have never heard any doctor say that it’s ok for a pregnant woman to go 26 hours without water”
Define “ok”
” I’ll just save time and anticipate your response: ”
nope, not my response at all. My response is did they say there was a medical risk? Or legal?
and if medical risk, risk of what ?
“Yet you are declaring religion (not wanting to impinge on the supposed rabbi-patient relationship) as your reasoning for supporting unlimited abortion on demand? Seems like cognitive dissonance.”
Hardly
you are confusing two aspects.
to illustrate: I would oppose The government regulating wear and when eruv can be built, which shita can be followed , should we require actual mechitzos etc etc. The Government should not be legislating religion.
At the same time, I would oppose an ordinance banning conectign any say PVC pipe to a phone pole for any reason . Why? It would prevent many from making an eruv.
We can come up with dozens of such examples. I would oppose the government forcing everybody to take a relgious day of rest off from work (actually on second thought…)
At the same time I would oppose the government forcing everybody to work on Shabbos
I have no idea why you think these are contradictary.
The government should not enforce religion, nor should it prevent people from practicing Ayin firts amendment (to be clear I’m not sayign abortion is practicing religion per se (though it can be at rare times))