To be fair, the services requested are not of a life and death nature. If you go to a doctor to preform a procedure that isn't needed to directly save your life and they refuse, then go to another doctor.

The doctor has a right to decline his services to you (if it is not of a life/death nature) and frankly I don't know if I'd want to be operated on by a doctor that didn't want to and who had a personal grudge against me for being forced to.

I agree with your comment, Oortcloud, but this still applies I think:

"Usually, providers who object to certain services object to them for everyone: 'I won't provide contraception.' In this case, they don't object to the service, just the patient. You can't pick and choose. You can't say, 'I will perform it for white people, but not for black people.' "

even if only (only...?) in an ethical sense.

I can see that point mirzania, and I fully agree with you. I am sickened by the self-righteous bigotry that passes itself off as morality in America.

This clip reminded me of the occasional controversy you hear about the pharmacists who refuse the "morning after pill" on religious grounds. Maybe it's time they choose another profession.