Doctors denied her infertility treatment on religious grounds The state Supreme Court stepped into a clash between gay-rights advocates and religious conservatives Wednesday, agreeing to decide whether doctors at a Southern California infertility clinic were entitled to deny artificial insemination to a lesbian. Five of the seven justices voted to grant a hearing to Guadalupe Benitez, who appealed a lower court's ruling allowing the doctors to assert their religious beliefs in defense of their actions. The case should clear up "confusion in the public mind about whether religious beliefs excuse discrimination,'' said attorney Jennifer Pizer of the Lambda Legal Defense...
