I see this also as a tie-in to a woman's right to her own body. For example, I see also a relation to instituting a ban on abortions.
Both of these bans say something similar: the state can take away women's right to make decisions about their own bodies, whether it is to cover them in public as a means of religious modesty or to determine whether or not she will carry a pregnancy full term. Either way, it is the state interfering with a woman's right to make decisions about her own body.
The inverse of this would be for France to also ban bikinis, short skirts, cleavage, etc., on the basis that it objectifies women's bodies inappropriately in public. I don't think that is any more or less right.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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