The choice to not do something you don't want to do is an important component of how resources are more efficiently allocated towards people's preferences. This is essentially because of how cost and quantity change and how other people respond to the change.
People's preferences include all people. Those preferences are not just what one subset of people think other people should prefer. If the claim is that initiating force on doctors to perform abortions is better for society, the claim is wrong because that which betters society is that which better addresses the preferences of those that make up the society, and the doctor is one of those that make up the society. In a society with freedom of choice, when the doctor doesn't do the abortion, the price and quantity in the market change slightly and the incentives for others to perhaps be more likely to want to then do the abortion change. Over time the level of abortions would reach the level that the people of the society want them to be according to the most sophisticated way of measuring what they value and according to the relevant constraints.
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