A federal judge in Virginia ruled a man’s abortion-based religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine survived a hospital’s motion to dismiss.

In a July 19 opinion, U.S. District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff for the District of Virginia dismissed former Inova Health Care Services employees’ Title VII religious-discrimination claims, except for one employee’s abortion-based religious exemption, finding he had properly linked his belief to his religion and its relation to the vaccine.

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