San Diego, Calif., Aug 14, 2007 / 08:05 am
A San Diego physician says medical professionals who refuse to provide particular treatments or procedures for reasons of religion or conscience should brace themselves for major challenges ahead.
Dr. George Delgado, medical director at Culture of Life Family Services, a non-profit medical clinic that operates from a Catholic perspective, told the California Catholic Daily that operating from one’s religious perspective will become increasingly difficult for physicians.
Delgado was commenting on the case against Drs. Christine Brody and Douglas Fenton, who are being sued by a former patient who is angry that Brody would not artificially inseminate her because she is a lesbian.
Brody and Fenton are OB-Gyns at North Coast Women’s Care in Vista, California. Their case has yet to go before the state Supreme Court. In 2003, however, the Fourth District State Appeals Court ruled against the physicians.