Posted on 04/25/2006 4:52:23 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
A WOMAN whose doctors refused her infertility treatment because she is a lesbian has sued before California's Supreme Court, her lawyer said today.
"Our client's doctors' behaviour goes against established medical ethics and violates California civil rights law," said Lambda Legal lawyer Jennifer Pizer in a statement announcing the suit was filed yesterday.
"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," Ms 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.
Sorry, Gordo! Couldn't help myself! LOL!
I don't know - but these fertility docs tend to do things slightly differently from place to place - and may have required she started from scratch again. Otherwise I'm not sure.
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