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Conservative anti-abortion religiouns are not being coerced into having nor are they paying for legal abortion. It is a legal medical procedure as is hip surgery. If conservative religious organizations can create a dogma around women and abortion then claim their religious freedom allows them to abolish abortion's legality what comes next: creating a dogma that prohibits contraceptives ............. oh....... wait that ship's already sailed.
When your mission statements read like these evangelical statements religious law becomes public law.
“Evangelicals believe that government is a gift from God for the common good. Good governance creates the conditions in which human beings fulfill their responsibilities as God’s image bearers and as stewards of God’s creation.” (Mission statement of the National Association of Evangelicals)
"Focus on the Family affirms the importance of social responsibility, supporting government institutions and protecting them against destructive social influences. God has ordained all social institutions, including the government, for the benefit of mankind and as a reflection of His divine nature. The Supreme Court's imposition of the doctrine of separation of church and state distorts the Founding Father's recognition of our unequivocally Christian nation and the protection of religious freedom for all faiths." (“Focus on the Family”position statement on Church and State)
According to the Biblical Christian worldview, human government was instituted by God to protect our unalienable rights from our own selfish tendencies. (Statement on the role of government from:All About GOD Ministries, Inc)
It is up to Christians to “restore once again to America a biblically based legal system that protects all human life from conception to natural death,” (Cultural Impact Team Resource Manuel)
Both sides of the political question do not involve coercion in some form. One side only is using their religious freedom to bludgeon all women into carrying every pregnancy to term.
Abortion is a 1st Amendment issue.
So if the Supreme Court’s recent decision in favor of the Little Sisters of the Poor had gone the other way— and some think that New York and Philadelphia may re-litigate— then in that scenario, the Sisters would NOT have been legally coerced to pay for contraceptives in their health care? Is that your position?