You can, with the additional stipulation that organ harvesting from corpses is simply incomparable with pregnancy. Actively interceding places great moral responsibility upon the person performing the action versus simply doing nothing and letting nature do what nature does.
All I'm saying is that this is a moral issue, and with all things, moral issues are not easy. If it's easy, it's probably not a moral issue. Put yourself in the shoes of a doctor who is nothing more than a doctor, they live to help people. They live in accordance with moral principles even when it places them at risk of having to betray their own principles or else place their career at an end; that is just for themselves, that is before they even have to take into account the struggle between those who have become so vociferous over the value of life and female autonomy that they have abandoned decency in favour of zealotry - making it near impossible for doctors to act as doctors, instead leaving everything to their patients where in any other case they would not. Because they can't, they are hateful for killing babies, hateful treating pregnant women worse than corpses, they're caught in a whirlwind and everyone hates them. Needless to say it's unfair for them and it's a complex issue, especially where healthcare is concerned, because sometimes a doctor absolutely must betray their own principles because they're dealing with women who are medically dependent upon them, I do not at all envy their moral quandary. For normal people the principles are the same, but the conflicts are not. Extending that same empathy, would one for example, believe that a pro-life pregnant woman herself, is motivated by a hatred for pregnant women? One need not rush into extremes where the beauty of fostering new life is comparable to organ harvesting cadavers :x
I don't like stating my own opinions in arguments because I think where one stands should be irrelevant, but it's a simple fact that people are more likely to disregard you if you appear to be on the opposite partisan lines. To that end I am pro-choice, if that in any way aids my case, I just find we often forget that most all of us are motivated by a desire to do good even if we don't agree on what good is. I would also like to add that I know you didn't bring up doctors in particular, I'm not strawmanning you, just highlighting the poor professionals backed into a corner
For example, if a doctor refuses to perform an abortion, are they casting judgement upon the patient? That adds yet another moral quandary to the situation
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