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Well, I can't many among the nonreligious supporting the right to kill a doctor in defense of a fetus suitable for abortion, with the assumption that the fetus is more or less a person.
That aside, my own position is that I believe women have the right to an abortion because it's their body, and a fetus suitable for an abortion isn't a person. I don't support the idea that someone other than the pregnant woman has the right to refusal. To me, that's akin to a woman having the right to extract sperm from her husband to artificially inseminate herself to have a child if he were reluctant.
The bottom line is: your body, your choice.
With this law, having the doctor's life being at the mercy of the woman's relatives as some kind of moral prerogative is bullshit. I thought America prized liberty.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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