The Supreme Court rejects to block Maine vaccine mandate for healthcare workers

 

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The Supreme Court  rejected Friday to block Maine's requirement for health care workers to receive a Covid-19 vaccine

Three conservative justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch  noted their dissented. The US state is not offering a religious exemption to hospital and nursing home workers who risk losing their jobs if they aren’t  vaccinated. 

Only two state New York and Rhode Island also have vaccine orders for health care workers that lack religious exemptions. Both are the subject of court fights and a court has approved workers in New York to seek religious exemptions during the lawsuit .

The high court has before turned away students at Indiana University and teachers in New York City who objected to being vaccinated. Both the university and city accept people to look for religious exemptions.

Maine allowed religious exemptions in the past for the daycare employees, health care woker, nurse, school children and college students. But the state eradicated all non-medical vaccination exemptions in 2019.

Justice Neil Gorsuch said  “ Healthcare workers who have served on the front line of a pandemic for the last 18 months are now being fired and their practices shuttered. All for adhering to their constitutionally protected religious beliefs. Their plight is worthy of our attention.”