If you still think that the American Civil Liberties Union favors choice, because it calls itself “pro-choice,” consider a lawsuit that a federal court dismissed in Michigan earlier this week. There the ACLU argued that pro-life doctors should be forced to perform abortions. It sounds unthinkable — denying doctors the right to practice medicine unless they are willing to take human lives and thereby violate their conscience — but it’s far from impossible.
Over the past few months, the ACLU has been blasting away at Trinity Health, a Catholic hospital network with a policy against performing abortions. That policy should not be a problem. Since Roe v. Wade, the conversation about abortion has been framed in terms of freedom: Under the Constitution, does a woman have the freedom to have an abortion? Does a doctor have the freedom to perform it?
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