Air Force pushing religious objectors to get vax that used human fetal cells, military lawyer claims
"The Air Force is pushing out guidance to commanders and attempting to pressure members of a protected class in ongoing litigation to receive a vaccine that the Air Force is on notice violates my client's religious beliefs," said attorney R. Davis Younts.
By Natalia Mittelstadt
Updated: August 14, 2022 - 7:06pm
The Air Force is pushing an alternative COVID-19 vaccine that used human fetal cells in its testing phase on airmen seeking religious exemptions from the service's vaccine mandate, according to an attorney for the religious objectors.
On July 15, the Air Force issued a background paper on the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine. "Pre-clinical work from Novavax compared the structure of its vaccine spike protein to existing literature where the spike protein was produced from fetal cells by non-Novavax researchers," the paper noted.
The paper was issued just a day after U.S. District Court Judge Matthew McFarland of the Southern District of Ohio granted a 14-day injunction against the Air Force's vaccine mandate on airmen seeking religious exemptions in the case of Doster v. Kendall. The injunction gave the government seven days to explain "why this Court should not grant a class-wide preliminary injunction," according to the court order.
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