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California Supreme Court Unanimously Rules That Doctors Cannot Deny Treatment to Lesbian Patients

by NCLR Staff | Aug 18, 2008 | healthcare discrimination, LGBT parents, lesbian parents, equal access to fertility, fertility

Justices reject attempt to create exception to California non-discrimination law (San Francisco, CA, August 18, 2008)—Today, the California Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in Benitez v. North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group, declaring that the physicians of the North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group cannot deny medical treatment to individuals based on their sexual orientation. In 1999, North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group refused to provide fertility treatments to Guadalupe Benitez...

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