US lesbian wins fertility battle

by sweet east pearl | August 19, 2008 at 04:15 pm

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Benitez is a lesbian and sued her doctors under California's civil rights laws, charging that they discriminated against her because of her sexual orientation when she asked for artificial insemination.

California's highest court has ruled that doctors in the US state cannot discriminate against gay patients on the basis of religious belief.
The decision was made after two Christian doctors refused to artificially inseminate a lesbian undergoing fertility treatment.
The doctors said that would have gone against their beliefs and instead told the patient how to inseminate herself.
Guadalupe Benitez, 36, changed doctors and has since had three children.
She sued the North Coast Women's Care Medical Group in 2001, arguing that doctors were subject to law banning businesses from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.
"It was an awful thing to go through," Ms Benitez was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.