Susan Murphy-Milano...

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2006/4/27

A Lesbian Is denied Fertility Treatment And Sues Doctors

@ 03:30 AM (28 months, 16 days ago)

The woman clearly should have sought treatment elsewhere if the doctor's refused to provide the procedure.  There are pharmacies now that because of religious beliefs do not fill birth control perscriptions.  Are they in front of the supreme court?  Other gay and lesbian couples/individuals have found ways to conceive  children.  Why not her?

And Hospitals for many reasons turn away patients for treatment right in the emergency room and that doesn't seem to violate and medical "ethics" or civil rights.   

  

The woman's doctors refused her infertility treatment because she is a lesbian and now has sued before California's Supreme Court.

"Our client's doctors' behavior goes against established medical ethics and violates California civil rights law," said Lambda Legal attorney Jennifer Pizer in a statement announcing the suit was filed on Monday.

"The doctors claim a right not to comply with California's civil rights law because they are fundamentalist Christians and they object to treating a lesbian patient the same way they treat other patients," the group said in a statement.

An appeals court overturned a trial court decision that Guadalupe Benitez was denied infertility treatment in violation of California law.

"Doctors are supposed to treat their patients, not make religious judgments about them," Benitez said in a statement.

"I trusted my doctors and then they humiliated my family and me by refusing to perform the insemination procedure after they'd been treating me and promising it to me for nearly a year," she said.

I for one have very mixed feelings on this whole issue as it relates to this specific case.