Millhouse
“In such a case you are not killing the baby,… ”
As I said I’m not asking for your pesak, most poskim agree with you (though not all for a nice list of marei mekomos see Feldheim’s Ecncylopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics) but in practice, in all cases I am fmailiar with you are right the Rav allowed the abortion. Though again, in ALL cases that I’m familiar with period, the Rav allowed an abortion even in cases that were not strictly speaking “pikuach nefesh” by the literal definition
” In such a case even lehavdil the Catholic church permits it.”
The catholic church does NOT permit it in such a case. Years ago when I was at a catholic hospital, there was no question the hospital wouldnt do it, there was a bit of an argument among the ethics board, whether they could even refer her to a place to treat her.
“The same people whose job is to decide whether any killing is justified”
what if their standards are different than ours?
The comparison to murder falls apat on a simple analysis. Do you know of anyone who had a sheila whether he could killl a live person? And that in that situation the pesak differed from the law?
“We Yisre’elim are not to charge each other interest not because it’s somehow wrong ”
Lol