Posted on 05/22/2024 6:10:54 AM PDT by Morgana
CVS Health Corporation settled with nurse practitioner Robyn Strader after she sued the company after it stopped providing religious accommodations regarding “pregnancy prevention services.”
Strader said she had been granted a religious exemption for six years permitting her to not prescribe contraceptives, and filed the lawsuit in January 2023 after having been fired following the policy change in 2021, according to the press release. First Liberty Institute, which represented Strader, announced Monday that CVS had agreed to a settlement of which the terms “were not made public.”
“We are thrilled that Robyn was able to reach a resolution with CVS,” Stephanie Taub, senior counsel for First Liberty Institute, said in the press release. “We are hopeful that companies across the country will recognize the religious liberty of their employees and work to protect those rights.”
🎉 VICTORY: We’ve reached a settlement with CVS on behalf of client Robyn Strader. This TX nurse practitioner wanted a religious accommodation from prescribing contraceptive medication that she believed could end the development or life of an unborn child. https://t.co/npr5yLnimi
— First Liberty Institute (@1stLiberty) May 20, 2024
“We can confirm a settlement was reached. We are pleased that this matter has been resolved,” Mike DeAngelis, CVS executive director of corporate communications, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Strader had worked at a CVS Minute Clinic in Texas since 2015 and had been able to send patients requesting contraceptive services to another practitioner either at the same location or nearby, according to the lawsuit. She argued that the company had retaliated against her for her religious beliefs.
Strader’s lawsuit requested that CVS be stopped from enforcing its policy and provide “compensation for past and future pecuniary losses.”
“Respecting the religious beliefs of workers and providing reasonable accommodations is not optional under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. We are pleased for Robyn,” Jonathan Berry, a managing partner at Boyden Gray PLLC, which also represented Strader, said in the press release.
CVS = evil to the Nth degree
This is an example of how an individual can sue for justice.
Should Muslim taxi drivers be allowed to refuse to pick up women or people with service dogs? Refuse to ring up alcohol purchases in a store?
This is a slippery slope...
And I’d also argue that contraception is not the equivalent of abortion.
BTW, CVS Minute Clinics offer CoupFlu shots.
If the nurse dispensed any of those, so much for her ethics.
The NP already had a religious exemption from CVS and could refer patients to other company employees who could prescribe contraceptives. but CVS changed their policy.
So CVS reneged on their policy and fired her.
Doctors are not allowed to own pharmacies due to conflict of interest problems. Drug sales companies should not be allowed to “own” or control their NPs. Who would go to a NP who is a drug company shill?
“Should Muslim taxi drivers be allowed to refuse to pick up women or people with service dogs? Refuse to ring up alcohol purchase in a store? This is a slippery slope...”
Contraception violates the natural law. It is not an exotic religious teaching. Do you not see the well past slippery slope of Orwellian Government trying to force their immoralities on us on everything, including trying to tell us we had no right to refuse an experimental Russian Roulette “vaccine” that might have harmed or killed even more had one branch of Government, the Supreme Court not stepped in?
“And I’d also argue that contraception is not the equivalent of abortion.”
Maybe, but contraceptives can and do act as abortifacients. It can’t be known in specific cases whether or not they are acting as abortifacients, but the hard truth is contraceptives are probably destroying more nascent lives than direct abortion on a scale of about 10-1. Pope Benedict XVI pointed this out basically saying who can count the numbers of this “massacre” of contraception not preventing conception but implantation.
This is why you zealots are going to lose every election from here on out if you run on contraceptives like the birth control pill is abortion do you realize how nuts that sounds? So you don’t want abortion we get it but you also want to take away the most effective way to avoid the need for abortions. Absolute insanity and your cause should be rightfully crushed. This is also why people hate HATE Catholics it’s crazy talk like this and a Marxist Pope. I got a grand Texas will be purple at best and blue in November due exclusively to the crazy right and the total ban on abortions here , going after birth control too would be political suicide and ensure a bright blue state.
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