Christian Hospital Worker’s Covid Vaccine Suit Nixed Too Quickly

Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital must face a Christian former executive office manager’s claims that she was wrongly denied accommodation from its Covid-19 vaccination mandate and then fired.

The worker adequately tied her faith to her objection to being vaccinated by stating in her religious exemption request form that she believed the vaccines were developed using aborted fetal cells, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit said Tuesday. A lower court should have considered the form and an accompanying letter in deciding a motion to dismiss by the hospital’s Milton, Mass., location and Beth Israel Lahey Health Inc., because ...