Barring emergencies, doctors should be able to choose what procedures they perform. Just as their employers should be able to fire them for not doing their job if they so choose, and patients able to sue them.
I think it's a slippery slope when we start telling people they're free from scrutiny or recourse if they just claim a moral imperative.
Edit: I'd like to add the stipulation that doctors who refuse services based on this provide referral to someone who will do them. Declining on moral grounds is fine by me, so long as it's an act of their conscious and not an act of imposing their views on others.
I'd also to say than any idiot refusing to sell condoms et al should receive no protection whatsoever.
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