Physicians framed abortion restrictions as intrusions on professional medical discretion.

Evidence

Beginning in the 1950s, support for state restrictions on abortion began to erode. Physicians at medical conferences questioned the restrictions as an infringement on their exercise of medical judgment. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3082

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the broader theme of professional groups as legal-change entrepreneurs, parallel to medical and other expert lobbies elsewhere in the book.