Cali to Doctors: Inseminate the Lesbians
In a development meriting separate coverage by the Journal’s Health Blog and Law Blog, as well as a print blurb: “California’s high court barred doctors from denying medical care to gays and lesbians based on religious beliefs, ruling that state law prohibiting sexual-orientation discrimination extends to the medical profession.” It ruled unanimously.
The case specifically questioned lesbians’ access to intrauterine insemination. It’s been complicated by Dr. Christine Brody’s claim ”she would not perform the procedure on any unmarried woman, heterosexual or homosexual,” a legally valid objection [and frustration for marriage-ineligible homosexuals] at the time of the incident - 1999.
Now, both points are moot. Lesbians can marry in California (for now?), and discrimination based on marrital status is unlawful. Expect sales of Stephen Colbert’s Formula 401 to skyrocket.
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