For one, this statement doesn't apply: if the woman's life is at stake, of course I will do it, but not otherwise. Under the legislation, a doctor (or worker of any kind) could refuse to provide the service that would allow any woman at all to have an abortion. Whether or not her life was at stake, whether or not she was raped, whatever.
There appears to be a growing medical and legal movement of "conscience" in which the practitioners are deliberately choosing this field of medical practice in order to promote their religious views and impose them on their patients. They appear to feel that it's part of their religious calling.
Also, I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to place abortion on par with cosmetic surgery as something "frivolous [that] does not fall under the heading of 'healthcare and the saving of lives,'" but it kind of comes off that way. :P
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There appears to be a growing medical and legal movement of "conscience" in which the practitioners are deliberately choosing this field of medical practice in order to promote their religious views and impose them on their patients. They appear to feel that it's part of their religious calling.
Also, I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to place abortion on par with cosmetic surgery as something "frivolous [that] does not fall under the heading of 'healthcare and the saving of lives,'" but it kind of comes off that way. :P