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They are not about "freedom of religion" - they are about the government supporting your efforts to impose your religion on someone else!
At the very least, conscience clauses should be banned from emergency rooms! If someone's care is delayed because a healthcare provider puts their conscience above the patient's health, it could have devastating consequences for the patient. Meanwhile, the healthcare provider goes on with their own life as if nothing happened. That's not right and it shouldn't be legal. Any hospital that receives taxpayer money should be required to offer ALL legal medical services, procedures and medications.
I'm so fed up with this "conscience" crap! It's not legal for an emergency room to refuse treatment to any patient under any kind of emergency circumstances ... unless that patient is a woman and the treatment involves "female parts". Women are being denied treatment and access to healthcare for issues that are exclusively female. They are being forced to jump through various hoops to get legal medical procedures. They are subjected to humiliation, intimidation and coercion by healthcare providers at every level. This is blatant, gender-based discrimination disguised as religious freedom ... but of course, women don't even have enough "religious freedom" to protect them from all those who wish to impose their beliefs!
