Healthcare/Hospital Law
Dec. 7, 2005
Panel Upholds Refusal to Inseminate Lesbian
SAN FRANCISCO - A California state appellate court has ruled that doctors may refuse on religious grounds to artificially inseminate a lesbian patient - not because of her sexual orientation, but because she is unmarried.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A California state appellate court has ruled that doctors may refuse on religious grounds to artificially inseminate a lesbian patient - not because of her sexual orientation, but because she is unmarried.
"For the purposes of this case, we construe (California law) as prohibit...
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