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Mainstream pro life legislation nowadays allows for abortions to save the mother, which is the only really necessary circumstance that halacha would (for Jews, not clear for goyim) mandate it as a necessity.
If we’re going to get into preferences, as in, if someone (insert italics) wants to rely on the tzitz eliezer (which I don’t think would be allowed since rav moshe was mara de’asra) in cases of deformities…nu nu, so you won’t be able to. You’ll have to bring a neshoma into the world. It’s not the kind of thing we’d fight about. We don’t believe in “rights”.
It’s better than the alternative of permitting goyim to do what is considered flat out, capital offense murder, since that’s all they’ve been doing. As stated, there are no states that are pushing the old hard line Catholic nonsense stance(most goyim are not Catholic) about the baby being purer etc. The states that have banned abortion ALWAYS allow it in cases where the mothers life is at risk, which for yidden is the only exception MANDATED by halacha. Again, we shouldn’t care about the whims and mere desires of people when the alternative is to allow infanticide.