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High court appears to side against doctors in lesbian insemination case

By Jason Siegel

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Cbs_8_video The California Supreme Court indicated during oral arguments yesterday that it would find that doctors can't claim their religious beliefs as a reason to deny medical services to gay, bisexual and lesbian people, The Recorder reported.

The Los Angeles Times reporter covering the case also got that vibe.

The case, S142892, started nine years ago when a woman sued two Vista doctors for refusing to provide intrauterine insemination nine years ago. The woman alleged the doctors discriminated against her for being a lesbian, while the doctors claimed that they were discriminating based on marital status, not sexual orientation. They claimed their Christian faith didn't allow them inseminate an unmarried woman and that marital discrimination was not yet barred by state law when the woman was their patient.

San Diego Superior Court sided with the woman, but the Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed.

The ruling is due in 90 days.

WATCH: Oral Arguments in S142892, California Channel

LISTEN: "Doctors Refuse to Artificially Inseminate a Lesbian Patient," KPCC Public Radio

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on May 29, 2008 (boomark / email).

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