Women in AZ: Be prepared to hand over information about your reproductive health to your bosses...

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39. How does an employer *prove* that they have a moral objection?

There are high bars per conscientious objection (per religious beliefs) to avoid active military duty. Point being is that there is a long standing process per vetting the "belief system is violated by the public policy". Have a relative who was a life long Quaker who still had to provide a long track record that demonstrated the faith position that allowed the exemption (he was a Quaker) per getting an alternative assignment per the draft and the Vietnam war. Wasn't exempt from the draft, but was exempt from serving in positions that involved the chance of killing.

One of the perverse aspects of this bills is there is no requirement of verification of beliefs that would allow such discrimination (to disallow coverage at least, to give grounds for firing at most.)

So any miserly company owner can "claim" such exemption with no need to prove that this is their belief system.

Meanwhile as the same folks are calling for a new war that we can't possibly man without a draft. There is a very clear process for determining whether or not the religious beliefs really qualify for exemption for a draft.

Every proposed state or federal law that give employers the right to deny coverage (if the provide coverage) for birth control, or worse to fire women (and not their partners) for using birth control for reasons that are not medically documented, should put in place a process to demonstrate that the employer holds such beliefs *and* lives those same beliefs in their lives (otherwise disproving that they hold such beliefs.)