“Bay Windsor Contreras is 4 months old and she’s the apple of her mothers’ eyes. But the new family has already had to confront the reality of discrimination from a place they never expected. Her two moms, Krista and Jami Contreras, were married in Vermont in 2012 under the state’s same-sex marriage law …. Last October, they welcomed beautiful baby Bay into the world.
“A month before the arrival of their daughter, the moms connected with pediatrician Dr. Vesna Roi at Eastlake Pediatrics in Roseville, Michigan. She came highly recommended by their midwife. Roi told the couple to make an appointment once Bay arrived. Six says after she was born at home, the family headed to the pediatrician’s office. But instead of seeing Roi, another doctor greeted them. The new doctor told the mothers that Roi decided that morning that she wouldn’t be able to take Bay on as a patient, because of the mothers’ sexual orientation. Roi hadn’t even come to the office to avoid encountering the family.
“The new mothers were shocked, hurt and angry. Krista Contreras said the news took the two of them by surprise because Roi seemed friendly and nice when they first met in the fall. ‘As far as we know Bay doesn’t have a sexual orientation yet so I’m not really sure what that matters,’ Jami Contreras said. ‘We’re not your patient — she’s your patient. And the fact is that your job is to keep babies healthy and you can’t keep a baby healthy that has gay parents?'”
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by CBS News.
Photo: Dr. Vesna Roi, D.O., of Eastlake Pediatrics in Roseville, Michigan. If she did what these moms allege, and I’m not saying she did, I wonder how that plays out in terms of medical ethics and/or Michigan’s consumer protection law? Here in Washington, a judge ruled yesterday that a florist who refused to sell flowers for a gay wedding violated Washington’s consumer protection law. I don’t know what, if any, protection against discrimination gay couples have in Michigan.