The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a former AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals employee fired in 2022 for not taking the COVID-19 shot, which she declined on religious grounds.
A healthcare worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Oct. 5, 2021, in Miami. Three years after COVID-19 vaccines became widely available in the United States, Louisiana continues to debate policies related to inoculation …
The company, though, fired her for noncompliance and rejected her religious objection to taking the shot. She filed for unemployment benefits with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, but the unemployment law judge denied her any benefits. “I’m pro-life, so that goes along with that, so any aborted tissues, anything that is utilized with any of the vaccines, I will not, I will not use.”
“Religious belief is intimate and differs substantially among Americans. The promise of religious liberty in the First Amendment is that such differences may persist without punishment from the state,” her petition read.
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