Federal Judge Seth Aframe of the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in favor of the former employee in a 21-page opinion. 'Whether few or many share that religious view is irrelevant,' Aframe wrote. 'That the Hospital disputes Bazinet's factual foundation for her belief about the development of the vaccines does not change the religious character of the belief.'
Bazinet refused the vaccine because she is a 'Christian who believes in Jesus Christ and His holy word, the Bible' and that the 'COVID-19 vaccines currently available developed and confirmed their vaccines using fetal cell lines, which originated from aborted fetuses,' the opinion said.
She argued the vaccine would make her 'complicit in an action that not only offends, but ... is an aberration to [her] Christian faith,' according to court docs.
The hospital argued that many Christians who oppose abortions still receive vaccines and that her request appeared to be from 'cookie-cutter, anti-vaccine forms' available online.
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