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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
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'Hoosier Hospitality' Meets the 'War on Women' - Guess Who Wins
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'Hoosier Hospitality' Meets the 'War on Women' - Guess Who Wins
by Gregg Levine
Aljazeera
http://america.aljazeera.com/blogs/scrutineer/2015/3/31/
hoosier-hospitality-meets-the-war-on-women--guess-who-wins1.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/mruorby
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With his states new Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) the focus of
a heated national debate, Indianas Republican governor, Mike Pence, took
to the microphones Tuesday declaring he would welcome legislation "that
makes it clear that this law does not give businesses a right to deny
services to anyone.
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The new law, which (despite claims to the contrary) differs significantly
from previous federal and state versions by extending religious belief
exemptions to cases that do not include a state entity, has raised an
alphabet soup of objections from groups ranging from the ACLU to the HRC
to the NCAA. Key to their concerns is the notion that Indianas RFRA will
be used to deny retail services to gay and lesbian couples, with examples
such as florists and the bakers of wedding cakes often cited.
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When the Supreme Court found for Hobby Lobby last summer, ruling that a
private company could deny insurance coverage for reproductive services to
women employees because of the owners strong religious beliefs, it boldly
extended the reach of federal RFRA protections. The decision instantly
uncorked a stream of follow-up cases into which happily waded educational
institutions, religious charities and other closely held private
businesses.
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True, all of those cases involved a state actor, as most concerned
insurance requirements under the Affordable Care Act, but none have so far
been significantly patched despite the fact that abortions are guaranteed
legal in the U.S. under Roe v. Wade, and contraception cannot be banned
because of the decision in Griswold v. Connecticut.
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If the Indiana RFRA is not repealed outright, and is instead allowed to
stand with some later clarifying statute protecting LGBT rights which now
seems to be the likely outcome the extension of religious belief
exemptions to cases concerning only private entities will stand with it.
It is then not hard to imagine the penumbra (to use Griswold language) of
Hobby Lobby creeping across a slew of discriminatory actions not expressly
forbidden by another law.
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In a place like Indiana, where the states feticide law originally
intended for illegal abortion providers was just used to sentence a young
woman to decades in prison after she was convicted of using a dumpster to
dispose of her miscarried fetus, what are the chances the legislature will
coalesce around a law to safeguard abortion rights or contraceptive
services? And will concerned residents or national organizations mobilize
to keep the heat on Pence and the Indiana GOP?
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Indiana is said to be famous for its Hoosier hospitality an easy-going
and welcoming kind of Midwest charm. The Republican Party, on the other
hand, is trying to shake its national reputation for spearheading a war on
women, earned through abortion restrictions, cutbacks in womens health
services and childcare, and resistance to improvements in minimum wage and
paid leave laws. When one meets the other on the grounds of the Indiana
state house, is there much doubt which reputation will remain intact?
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