A hospital system in Arkansas wants to make sure anyone claiming religious exemption to vaccines is sincere, by also making them attest, acknowledge, and affirm that they object to the use of fetal cell lines in testing and development of not just vaccines, but some of the most common OTC medicines such as Tylenol, Tums, Preparation H, Prilosec, Zoloft, Claritin, Sudafed, Benadryl, Motrin, Lipitor… all in all about 30 or so, which is hardly a complete list of OTC medicine that used such cell lines.
The president of the Health Group saw an uptick in religious exemptions for the COVID vaccine that was WAY over the typical seasonal request over the flu vaccine.
It is worth pointing out that NO major religious denomination opposes vaccination, muchless COVID vaccination. The Pope had just spoken from the Papal Plane that “… humanity has a history of friendship with vaccines”, but acknowledges that even within the Vatican there are a few holdouts, including a Cardinal… who came down with COVID.
UC Hastings Law Professor Dorit Reiss had an article in Hastings Law Journal that claimed, with evidence, that religious exemption is prone to abuse and a majority of people’s religions do NOT oppose vaccination (as outlined above).
A religious liberty expert weighed in, that religious exemption to vaccine mandate is NOT supported by Federal law or the Constitution, and if the Federal government want to take it away they can easily do so.
Is Arkansas example the beginning of the end for religious exemptions?