abortion and medicine are not the same thing
Abortion is NOT remotely medicine
Therapeutic abortion to save a woman’s life most certainly is an accepted part of medical practice. Both Sen.Rick Santorum and Rep.Michele Bachmann have been in the personal position of supporting such abortion.
No one wants to be in the position of having to take another’s life in self-defense of their own, whether it be by a gun or an abortion. Medically necessary abortions can be regulated and performed under strict controls at hospitals which can eliminate the horrible practices, abortion on demand (murder of the unborn), we’ve seen at for-profit clinics.
It was early pro-life protesters who made the serious mistake of picketing hospitals that eventually drove those organizations to exclude doctor panels from making the responsible decisions that kept abortion practices under control.