The AP reports that California’s Supreme Court has decided that fertility doctors cannot refuse treatment to gays and lesbians because of the conscience of the doctor.
Justice Joyce Kennard wrote that two Christian fertility doctors who refused to artificially inseminate a lesbian have neither a free speech right nor a religious exemption from the state’s law, which “imposes on business establishments certain antidiscrimination obligations.”
That last quoted phrase I have no argument with.
Fertility doctors who have moral objections will close their practices or move them to another state. This results in a net decrease of care.
Those doctors who have no moral objections now have one less thing to separate from other doctors. They could have charged a premium for their service, but now they are a commodity.
For both sets of doctors as well as patients, this is a lose-lose-lose situation.
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