{"id":275243,"date":"2022-09-01T16:42:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=275243"},"modified":"2022-08-31T22:59:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T03:59:31","slug":"nurse-practitioner-sues-cvs-forcing-violate-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nurse-practitioner-sues-cvs-forcing-violate-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse practitioner sues CVS for forcing health care professionals to violate their faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/adfmedia.org\/case\/casey-v-minuteclinic-diagnostic-virginia\">Alliance Defending Freedom<\/a>) Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Virginia nurse practitioner <a href=\"https:\/\/adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net\/files\/CaseyComplaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed suit<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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, including drugs like certain hormonal contraceptives, Plan B, and Ella. Casey\u2019s 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. For three and a half years, CVS respected Casey\u2019s religious beliefs by allowing her to decline to provide or facilitate the use of abortion-inducing drugs. But in January, CVS informed her that they would no longer accommodate her faith and fired her a few months later\u2014directly violating Virginia\u2019s Conscience Clause.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/conscience-rights-protections-pro-life-health-care\/\">Conscience Rights: What protections do pro-life health care professionals have?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorporations like CVS cannot defy the law by firing professionals who want to work consistently with their faith,\u201d said ADF Senior Counsel Denise Harle, director of the ADF Center for Life. \u201cPaige had a spotless record of caring for patients, yet CVS decided to abruptly fire her, solely because of her religious belief that life begins at conception. Virginia law protects the freedom of everyone to work without fear of being fired for their religious beliefs prohibiting participation in abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virginia\u2019s Conscience Clause <a href=\"https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/title18.2\/chapter4\/section18.2-75\/#:~:text=Conscience%20clause.,purpose%20of%20performing%20an%20abortion.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prohibits<\/a> employers from discriminating against their employees who decline to participate in providing abortifacients because of their religious or ethical beliefs. ADF attorneys are suing CVS on Casey\u2019s behalf to prevent the company from forcing health care professionals to violate their faith in order to keep their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>ADF attorneys filed the lawsuit, <em>Casey v. MinuteClinic Diagnostic of Virginia,<\/em> in Prince William County Circuit Court.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: This press release was originally published at Alliance Defending Freedom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Alliance Defending Freedom) 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":761,"featured_media":275244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[9953,7077],"tags":[2978,18862,87,3403,320,18863,18861],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nurse practitioner sues CVS for forcing health care professionals to violate their faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Virginia NP filed suit against MinuteClinic, a division of CVS, after it fired her for refusing to provide abortion-inducing drugs to customers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nurse-practitioner-sues-cvs-forcing-violate-faith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nurse practitioner sues CVS for forcing health care professionals to violate their faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Virginia NP filed suit against MinuteClinic, a division of CVS, after it fired her for refusing to provide abortion-inducing drugs to customers.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nurse-practitioner-sues-cvs-forcing-violate-faith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-01T21:42:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-01T03:59:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242585850-cvs-pharmacy.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alliance Defending Freedom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alliance Defending Freedom\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nurse-practitioner-sues-cvs-forcing-violate-faith\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nurse-practitioner-sues-cvs-forcing-violate-faith\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alliance Defending Freedom\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8e3ac4598d936238ba286a4e6b082140\"},\"headline\":\"Nurse practitioner sues CVS for forcing health care professionals to violate their faith\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-01T21:42:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-01T03:59:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nurse-practitioner-sues-cvs-forcing-violate-faith\/\"},\"wordCount\":378,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"alliance defending freedom\",\"Casey v. 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