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Ethics Consult: Should Christian Clinic Provide IVF to Lesbian Couple?

— You make the call

Last Updated August 14, 2020
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Welcome to Ethics Consult -- an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We present an ethical dilemma in patient care (hypothetical for this edition); you vote on your decision in the case. Next week, we'll reveal how you all made the call. And stay tuned -- an ethics expert will weigh in next week with an ethical framework to help you learn and prepare.

A lesbian couple in a small community plan to have a baby via in vitro fertilization. The only fertility clinic in their area is run by evangelical Christians who refuse to provide IVF to same-sex couples on religious grounds.

See the results and what an ethics expert has to say.

And check out some of our past Ethics Consult cases: Is a COVID Human Challenge Trial Ethical? Ethics of Testing Drugs on Down Syndrome Patients; Let Elderly Woman Visit Husband With COVID?