Abortion-Based Religious Exemption Claim Over COVID-19 Vaccine Survives Motion to Dismiss, Virginia Federal Judge Rules

A federal decide in Virginia dominated a person’s abortion-based non secular exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine survived a hospital’s movement to dismiss.

In a July 19 opinion, U.S. District Decide Michael S. Nachmanoff for the District of Virginia dismissed former Inova Well being Care Companies workers’ Title VII religious-discrimination claims, apart from one worker’s abortion-based non secular exemption, discovering he had correctly linked his perception to his faith and its relation to the vaccine.