fertility Archives - National Center for Lesbian Rights

by Maxie Bee | Jan 1, 2013 | Assisted reproduction, Reproductive Justice, fertility, Parenting, healthcare

by Bethany Woolman | Aug 28, 2012 | sperm donor, pregnancy, Assisted reproduction, fertility, parentage, lesbian parents

(San Francisco, CA, August 28, 2012)—The California State Senate today voted 26 to 10 to approve a bill that would ensure that women in same-sex relationships and single women can access fertility services on the same terms as women in different-sex relationships. Assembly Bill 2356, authored by Assemblymember Nancy Skinner and co-sponsored by Equality California (EQCA) and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), would allow women using known donors to access certain fertility...

by Bethany Woolman | Aug 18, 2008 | healthcare discrimination, fertility, equal access to fertility, lesbian parents, LGBT parents

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...