Saw this post on the Wall Street Journal’s health blog: California Doctors Can’t Refuse Care to Gays on Religious Grounds . The case stems from a gay woman’s request for fertility treatment. Guadalupe Benitez said she was denied because she was gay. The doctors said it was because she was single. California Supreme Court Justice Joyce L. Kennard wrote: “Do the rights of religious freedom and free speech exempt a medical clinic’s physicians from complying with [California’s] prohibition against discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation? Our answer is no.” Read the entire opinion here . As blogger Jason Goldstein points out, there’s more at issue with this question. The federal government was recently reviewing the rights of doctors and pharmacists who do not prescribe certain kinds of birth control on religious grounds. The after-the-fact contraception Plan B is a particularly controversial issue. ...
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