Yesterday the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled that doctors in California cannot discriminate against gays and lesbians, whether or not the treatment sought conflicts with the doctors' religious beliefs.
The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit against a fertility doctor who refused to artificially inseminate a lesbian patient. A recent Duke University Press book, Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience, analyzes issues surrounding the intense medicalization of the reproduction process for lesbians, who become fertility patients not (or not only) because of their physical conditions but because of their sexual identities.
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