Calif. Medical Association Accused Of Hypocrisy Over Treatment Of Gays

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In legal papers filed today in Los Angeles, Lambda Legal accused the California Medical Association of hypocrisy in the case of a woman denied fertility treatment by her Southern California health care providers because she is a lesbian.

The CMA has filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the doctors named in the suit who argue that because of their religious beliefs they could not treat the woman.

In today's response to the CMA brief, Lambda Legal argues that under the United States and California Constitutions, California state law, guidelines of the American Medical Association and the California Medical Association's own by-laws, doctors may object to certain procedures based on their own religious beliefs but that they may not object to treating certain groups of people based on those beliefs.