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Offline Chris_

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Docs Can’t Claim Religious Right Not to Artificially Inseminate Lesbians, Says C
« on: August 19, 2008, 11:27:01 AM »
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Docs Can’t Claim Religious Right Not to Artificially Inseminate Lesbians, Says Calif. Court

The California Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a doctor may not refuse to artificially inseminate a lesbian because it violates the doctor’s religious principles.

Two doctors at the North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group in San Diego County said they had declined for religious reasons to artificially inseminate an unmarried woman and argued that their rights to free speech and free exercise of religion protected them from being compelled by the government to do so.

Seven justices of the California Supreme Court said this was not the case and that doctors were compelled by California law to artificially inseminate lesbian patients.

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On Monday, the California Supreme Court said that Brody and Fenton did not have a right on the basis of their religious convictions to refuse to perform the insemination.

The court likened this case to a decision it issued four years ago in which it ordered the Roman Catholic Church to purchase contraceptives for its employees through health insurance plans even though the Catholic Church holds artificial contraception to be immoral.

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Re: Docs Can’t Claim Religious Right Not to Artificially Inseminate Lesbians, Says C
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2008, 11:39:29 AM »
Easy solution to this.

Doctor who doesn't want to do this, should claim he can't because conceiving a child to be reared in a Lesbian household would not be in the best interests of the child.

That ought to get him moving out of PR Kalifunny in a big f'n hurry.
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Re: Docs Can’t Claim Religious Right Not to Artificially Inseminate Lesbians, Says C
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2008, 11:56:24 AM »
Her RIGHT?!?  For an elective procedure?  This is bullshit, and it would still be bullshit whether the docs were Christian, Hindu, Moslem, or Mithran.  The analogy to the Catholic health plan's benefit package is inapposite, those employees were stuck with a single plan but could go to any pharmacy to fill a BC scrip; these docs are logically like one of the countless pharmacies, not the choke point represented by the single health plan.
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Re: Docs Can’t Claim Religious Right Not to Artificially Inseminate Lesbians, Sa
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2008, 03:14:04 PM »
this one needs to bubble up to the SCOTUS where it will get decided properly.
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