Is the fetus not considered a pursuer if it causes the mother psychological problems (severe depression and the like)?

What do you mean by saying that abortion is murder?
From the standpoint of Jewish law, someone who aborts a fetus at most violates a rabbinic prohibition. It certainly does not have the status of a murderer, neither intentionally nor unintentionally. More than that, when a woman is executed they strike her opposite the womb. If this were murder, they would wait for her to give birth. And as long as it has not brought out its head, its status is like part of the mother.

Yechiel,
If the assessment is that this would cause the mother very severe psychological harm, perhaps there is room to permit it.

A,
On the face of it, this is a Torah prohibition, and in Rabbi Moshe Feinstein’s view it is even included under “Do not murder.” But I was speaking mainly on the moral plane, not the halakhic one.
The proof from a woman being executed is no proof. Even an ordinary Torah prohibition should have led us to wait. And in general, why do they kill the woman herself if this is murder? Punishment justifies killing. True, the fetus did not sin, but as I wrote, it is subordinate to its mother. That does not mean killing it is not murder. But as stated, I am speaking mainly on the moral plane.