Regardless of beliefs weather abortion is right or wrong, unnecessary or necessary, I'm pretty much under the option that if laws are created to control what medical procedures a doctor can and can't perform, you get scenarios like the one discussed where doctors acted within the confide of how the law was interrupted to protect themselves in a way that didn't go against one law but might have violated others. And the weird obsession to keep a baby developing in a brain dead woman, because it had a heartbeat, yet because they couldn't remove the baby because it was to soon, they continued to keep the mother alive, which ultimately was decided that the law allows pregnant women to die without obsession to save the woman, being devils advocate now the pro life movement can set up laws that force this scernio.... And to get to the main point of my opinion, I believe a doctor should be able to perform or recommend any procedure the patient is in need of, or requests under medical necessity. If a drugged out addict gets pregnant while living on the street, and walks into a clinic to request an abortion, I think it would be more than ethical to provide her one, just as it would be ethical for a doctor to recommend an abortion to a drug addict still doing drugs 4 months into a pregnancy., because drug addicts make the worse parents, and society turned a blind eye to the sheer amount of drug addicts raising or trying to raise and recover in the socal system.