[Amendment10]

"Forgive me for perhaps being slow, but are you saying that forcing the Pharmacist to dispense the drug is violating the 14th Amendment, or that dispensing the drug that takes life is violating it?"

When the states ratified the 14th Amendment, the states prohibited themselves from abridging any personal freedoms of citizens that the states have expressly protected in the Constitution as evidenced by the language of Section 1 of that amendment.

So when a state forces citizens to do anything that forces them to deny their religious convictions for example, such convictions expressly protected by 1st Amendment-protected free speech and religious expression, forcing pharmacists to deny their religious convictions by dispensing abortion drugs in this example, the states are in clear violation of the 1st Amendment as applied to the states by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment imo.

Please let me know if I didn’t address your concern.

[ifinnegan]

Thanks. That answered it.