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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue with the law is that it includes private businesses.  The bigger issue is not the Christian florist or Christian baker refusing to supply a gay couple's wedding. (this is awful and abhorrent but doesn't endanger anyone) The issue is the Christian pharmacy, the only one for 20 miles in a rural area of Indiana refusing to fill the prescription for Truvada because homosexuality is a sin and against his/her religion.  The same pharmacy also refuses to stock Plan B or birth control pills because birth control is against his or her religion.  That is placing a substantial burden on others because of your religion.  There are places around this country still served only by the small independent pharmacies and not CVS or Walgreen's.  The Federal RFRA was for limiting the STATE encroaching on religious freedom not individuals or businesses claiming a right to religious freedom.  The Indiana Law is written much more broadly than other state RFRA around the country.  [/quote]

Woman's right to birth control does not trump someone else's right to avoid participating in contracepting.  They are competing rights and our government is very wise in not forcing either one on the other in most cases.  We can be proud of our government - one of the few in the world - that makes a decent attempt at protecting EVERYONE from participating in something that is offensive to them.  Obviously it can get extremely complicated but I think the effort is valiant.   In the case of the birth control, a court could determine that in a particular individuals case, the extra 20 minute drive was INDEED too great a hardship, and assuming no other accommodations could be made (a mail order from the pharmacy in the next town over, perhaps?) force the sole pharmacist to fill the script.  The law is written to cover what can be covered by it.  Exceptions in court can always be made.  [/quote]

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