Lesbian couple wins case against fertility clinic’s religious discrimination
For me this is a case about doing the right thing and being fair. Not discriminating against people and doctors not playing the role of God, saying because you are gay, you are not worthy of having a child or a family. I did it not only for me, my partner and my children but for other people coming after me, so they don’t have to go through the humiliation and frustration and abandonment as a patient.”
Guadalupe Benitez, a lesbian who was denied fetility treatment back in 1999 because the California clinic that she went to had religious objections. (ABC News)
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