One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Some religions consider eating meat from cows to be as evil as abortion. Should their members be exalted when they block the entrance to a McDonald's?
Some religions hold that building weapons is just as evil as abortion. Should their members be exalted when they block the entrance to a defense plant?
These women are going in for a prodedure that day that they often have not thought through or know the ramifications thereof (including medical risks). You're talking apples and oranges.
No, we're talking about the exaltation of one's personal religious beliefs over other's right to go about their business.
It's not as if this guy didn't have a legal means of reaching these women. But that must have seemed so...dull.
If you as a person had no class status--say you were a slave in 1850...I could just hear you saying, "It's not as if the Underground Railroad didn't have a leagal means of reaching the slave-owners."
I supposed if some religious do-gooder had intervened in the taking of the life of Lacey Petersen & her unborn baby that, too, would have been the "exaltation of one's personal religious beliefs over other's right to about their business. As Dickens said, "Mankind is our business."