no doctor who is against abortion should be asked to perform one.

I think this is completely wrong. A doctor need not enter the specific field of medical care that might involve abortions if he or she doesn't want to. But once a doctor is working in that field they have an absolute moral and professional obligation to serve the patient's needs as long as the request is within the law. Otherwise they should be struck off. To allow doctors such scope would be the thin end of the wedge. You might then get general practitioners who refuse to treat overweight or smelly people, schools which refuse to have children from broken homes, dentists who refuse people who eat garlic. You want to be a doctor and you oppose abortion? There are plenty of fields of medicine you can work in that won't conflict with your horrid prejudice, so stay out of obstetrics and make yourself useful elsewhere. Look at this from the patient's point of view. They need an abortion but they run up against a doctor who refuses them "on moral grounds". What a trauma for that woman. Time is of the essence. She has been made to feel like a piece of trash and she still has to find another doctor (and you can bet your life the refuser won't make it easy). If that's the scenario you wish to justify, Bill, well I think you're seriously misguided.