Appeals Court Sides With Woman Fired for Refusing to Take the COVID-19 Vaccine

Americans faced tough decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The government’s overreaction impinged on individuals’ rights with vaccine and mask mandates.

Some had to choose between losing a job and getting a vaccine that may or may not have worked to prevent COVID-19. Others chose to quit jobs rather than submit to government coercion.

My body, my choice? When it comes to destroying human life inside the body, YES. But refusing to put a potentially harmful vaccine inside the body? NO.

Some of the harassed individuals are having their day in court — and winning.

A woman named Rachel Spivack, an Orthodox Jew, refused to take the vaccine. She worked as an assistant district attorney in the office of Lawrence Krasner, the Philadelphia District Attorney. She asked for a religious accommodation. She was fired instead. First Liberty Institute said other employees received accommodations for medical and union membership reasons.

First Liberty filed a lawsuit on her behalf. Spivack lost in the lower court, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled in her favor.

“No American should lose her job for living according to her sincerely held religious beliefs,” said Lea Patterson, an attorney at First Liberty.

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