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Healthcare/Hospital Law

Jun. 16, 2006

Top Court to Review Fertility Doctors' Refusal to Treat Woman

The state Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether doctors may, based on their own religious beliefs, refuse to treat unmarried women.

By Itir Yakar
Daily Journal Staff Writer


      The state Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether doctors may, based on their own religious beliefs, refuse to treat unmarried women.
      The court voted 5-2 to take up the case of a Southern California patient who accused doctors at her fertility clinic of refusing to artificially inseminate her because she is a lesbian. ...

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