A US judge on Tuesday ruled that New York state cannot impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on healthcare workers without allowing for religious exemption requests.
Seventeen workers sued over the mandate, alleging their employer revoked an exemption or refused to consider it because of the state's emergency vaccine requirement, which was announced on 26 August.The ruling provides a test case as vaccine opponents gear up to fight plans to be unveiled soon by the Biden administration to extend COVID-19 vaccine requirements to tens of millions of unvaccinated Americans.
The plan was challenged by a group of healthcare workers who said they opposed COVID-19 vaccines because some vaccines were developed from cell lines of aborted fetuses. The employees argued that by granting medical exemptions, the state and healthcare companies were treating those with religious objections to vaccines less favourably, violating the US Constitution's equal protection clause.Getty Images North America
They can 'request' it, and they can be told to GGF.
That is BS. The judge obviously affected by COVID-19
So the church dictate to the state
Ridiculous! They will meet their “maker” earlier than most and put others at risk.
Sideline them then.
That US Judge is going to get overruled by a higher court in 3… 2… 1…
I’m glad as least our Australian govts are doing right thing not being this stupidity to the offical level.
There is no religious exemption. There are vaccines available that didn't use the cell lines in question. It will be interesting to see how the US courts handle this.
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