Christian Nurse Sues CVS After It Fires Her for Not Distributing Abortion Pills
September 1, 2022 | Virginia
A Christian nurse practitioner has filed a lawsuit against CVS after one of its clinics illegally fired her for not distributing abortion pills to customers.
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Virginia nurse practitioner filed suit Wednesday in state court against MinuteClinic, a division of the CVS drugstore chain, after the health clinic illegally fired her for declining to provide abortion-inducing drugs to customers in keeping with her religious beliefs.
Paige Casey, who has been a licensed nurse practitioner in northern Virginia since 2018, follows the teaching of her Catholic faith, which prohibits her from providing, prescribing, or facilitating the use of any drug, device, or surgical procedure that can cause an abortion. Casey notes that some drugs like Plan B and Ella can cause very early abortions.
For three and a half years, CVS respected Casey’s religious beliefs by allowing her to decline to provide or facilitate the use of abortion-inducing drugs. Casey’s religious objection never posed an issue to coworkers, patients, or supervisors, and just two days before she was fired, she received a merit-based pay increase…. (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)
