Doctors who oppose abortion are doctors who oppose unjustified homicide. Opposing abortion is just a matter of opposing unjustified homicide. An unjustified abortion is unjustified homicide. When we ask that abortion not be legal, we are asking that government protection against homicide be extended to all groups of people and that certain groups not be excluded, i.e,. those in the womb. If unjustified homicide is wrong, unjustified abortion is wrong. If we are going to protect one group from unjustified homicide, we should protect all groups.
If we really think that all people are equal by nature and that they should be protected from unjustified homicide because they are equal by nature, i.e., because they are human beings and one is just as human as another, by nature, then all individuals who are human should be protected equally. In excluding one group or individual from such protection, abortionists are implicitly claiming that at least one group is not equal by nature to other groups, or that those in that group are not human, or that though they are, they still do not deserve protection, which implies that the protection is not rooted in being human, i.e,. in having a human nature and being a human being, but in something else, something secondary such that one human being can be protected and one need not be, despite both being human, by nature.
So, we need to really see that our opposition to abortion is really just an opposition to unjustified homicide, and we also need to really see that the business of trying to protect these people is rooted in the fact that they are human, by nature, too, just like any doctor who might perform an abortion and any patient a physician might care for otherwise.
