[shhrubbery!]

They are also constrianed by the Hyppocratic Oath to do no harm.

Do medical schools even administer the Hippocratic Oath anymore? I have a hunch that went out with the bathwater after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

[Old Student]

Many medical schools still administer the oath. In some of them, the medical students who refuse to perform an abortion are harrassed about it, in some they fail the school right there, and in some they have no problem at all. Abortion is sometimes medically necessary to save the woman's life, sometimes it merely cleans up what has already started, and it is often a tragedy. Some military doctors (I retired a few years ago from the Air Force) will happily perform an abortion, and some won't. Personal choice.