G-d's Laws are the one and only source of morality and ethics. Most of the time abortion is strictly forbidden. Like capital punishment, it is mandatory only in a miniscule number of cases. But in either case G-d's Laws determine what must, and what must not, be done. To erect a moral system in regarding to anything (murder, abortion, theft, homosexuality, "social justice," etc.) apart from G-d's Laws is to open the door to an independent, secular morality.
My remark about the old Protestant prejudice did not come from He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. It is actually something I once heard (a long time ago).
Thank you for your mechilah.
Abortion is intrinsically evil. It is never permissible, in any circumstance, let alone "mandatory." Capital punishment is permitted in scripture. It is not intrinsically evil.
Your reading of God's Laws is faulty. I think you are confusing the principle of double effect (a medical procedure to save the life of the mother is morally licit, even if the secondary effect is the loss of the unborn child) with "abortion." A direct abortion is never morally licit, in any circumstance, and no appeal to some fringe interpretation of "G-d's Laws" will ever change that concrete reality.