The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 is an example of something that had a good intended purpose but ended up doing more harm than good. Since 1993 many states have passed construed versions of the Religious Freedom Act that often serves as a form of legal discrimination. The intended purpose of the RFRA was to protect individual’s religious freedom. However, the act now allows discrimination in the name of freedom by allowing people to deny services to others based on religious beliefs. The people most negatively affected by the RFRA are women and the LGBT community. A recent example of this is the supreme court case Burwell Vs. Hoppy Lobby Stores, inc, which ruled that Hobby Lobby could legally deny contraceptives to their
