In response to the affirmative answer to this question using symplectic methods, I am wondering if the equivalent statement holds in positive characteristic?
Explicitly, over an algebraically closed field $k$ of positive characteristic $p > 0$, does every smooth projective morphism $f : X \to \mathbb{P}^1$ admit a section?
If we do not require $k$ to be separably closed, the question becomes uninteresting because of examples such as $\mathbb{P}^1_{k'} \to \mathbb{P}^1_k$ for any finite separable $k'/k$.
My guess is there should exist an example with no section. My idea was to find a surface admitting a nontrivial elliptic fibration over $\mathbb{P}^1$ with smooth fibers. Do there exist such counterexamples?