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Honesty is not just the best policy, it's the only policy.

Informed consent is the law of the land.

If you can't abide by that, don't call yourself a doctor.

Period.

In today's United States, there is a majority of Supreme Court justices who are determined to take away the choices that we heretofore have enjoyed under the law. These worthies, and the fundamentalist ranks from which they spring, are intent not only to cast away the advice of such as Mme. Baroness but extirpate it from United States law and banish it in silence forever from public discourse. This will be much easier for them when the "unitary executive" being cooked up by Dick Cheney comes into being. No checks and balances, no due process, no dissent, no recourse, resistance futile, a corporatist-militarist-imperial order, disciplined and neat, everything "decided" by the "decider" in circumstances of perpetual emergency, perpetual war, perpetual pressure to silence critics lest "terrorists" gain the advantage. Physicians, as well as others in BushWorld, must do their duty to the theocratic-dominionist doctrine: "Dogma First, Patients Next, Doctors Serve the State and Faith."

I'm diverging from my usual abhorrence of repeated comments, but this was my reaction to many of the answers to this question.
There is more to this question than abortion, and even then it is a completely different proposition depending on where you live.
Those of us who are writing from large cities where there is an abundance of choices in medical care can talk about referring patients to different professionals. In some places, whether because they are rural or deeply steeped in a single religious ethos, those choices do not exist.

That pretty much sums it up. Didn't take a lot of words to do it, either.