Homicide Case Summary

1. Leesa Meldrum was not entitled of IVF treatment which was stated under the Sex Discrimination Act. 1984

2. Single and lesbian women had no right of accessing IVF treatment; they couldn’t access IVF treatment unless they were married woman who couldn’t conceive naturally.

3. Leesa meldrum had standing as she was the one affected by the law stated whereas Dr john mcbain helped her and provided her with money needed as he was her encouragement.(plaintiffs)

4. Dr John McBain, a Melbourne gynaecologist specialising in reproductive technology, was consulted by Ms Leesa Meldrum, a single woman wishing to fertile through (IVF) treatment. Leesa was constrained by Victorian law from receiving IVF treatment, as she was single. Dr McBain then launched proceedings in a case seeking affirmation that provisions of the Victorian legislation were inconsistent with the Sex Discrimination Act. Groups that had their rights infringed were lesbian and single women who wanted IVF; in this case representing them was Leesa Meldrum.

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Single women like leesa meldrum were denied form using the service of IVF treatment as well as lesbian patients, under the Victorian law, single or lesbian patients could not access IVF services. Under commonwealth law, it was a unlawful to deny IVF services to single or lesbian patients. This should have meant that single or lesbian patients could access IVF service because the commonwealth law prevails.

6. states in section 8 of the infertility treatment Act provided that, in order to receive treatment, woman must be:

• Married and living with her husband on a genuine domestic basis or

• Living with a man in de facto