Strader, who has been a nurse practitioner a majority of her life, said she has never experienced her faith getting in the way of her work like this at her previous places of employment.After working six and a half years with CVS MinuteClinic in Keller, Texas, nurse practitioner Robyn Strader is suing the retail pharmaceutical company, after she was fired for refusing to prescribe hormonal contraceptives.
Under Title VII, it is illegal for employers to discriminate against an employee based on race, religion, gender or nationality. According to Pratt this federal law also states all cases of religious accommodations should be evaluated on an individual basis. Prior to getting terminated, Strader, who is a devout Baptist was allowed to refer patients seeking contraception or other reproductive health care to another nurse practitioner in her clinic or to the neighboring Minute Clinic that was five minutes away, said Strader.
“She started out generally wanting to know which direction I was going to take then she got aggressive, demanding I change my religious views, or I would be fired,” said Strader. “I kept telling her, I am not going to change my position, CVS is going to have to change theirs. I just saw this change in culture, something that I had not experienced in my previous years there.”
Pratt claims that CVS did not have to terminate Strader and could have easily placed her in an alternative employment opportunity but chose not to do so. “It would have been easy to put Robyn in a virtual MinuteClinic nurse practitioner position,” said Pratt. “In this situation, if she did receive a request for contraception, she could instantly without any lapse of time or expense just transfer that patient to another virtual nurse practitioner.
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