Moral scruples, civil rights and babies for lesbians

California’s highest court schedules oral arguments in case of doctors who refused to artificially inseminate homosexual woman
May 6, 2008

Can physicians be compelled by law to artificially inseminate lesbians so they can have children even if performing such a procedure violates the doctors’ religious convictions? The state Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on that issue beginning at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, May 28, in San Francisco.

The California Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops, has filed a friend-of-the-court brief on the side of the physicians, arguing that no doctor should be compelled to engage in any practice he or she believes to be morally wrong. the rest