Mon Aug 23, 2021 – 9:39 pm EDT
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MONROE, Louisiana (LifeSiteNews) – A federal judge in Louisiana has blocked a private medical school from mandating COVID-19 vaccines as a condition for enrollment or from imposing severe restrictions on unvaccinated students.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty ruled in favor of three second-year students at Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM), holding that the Louisiana school’s vaccine policies constituted “irreparable harm” and violated the students’ religious liberties.
The group of students had filed written dissents from VCOM’s vaccine mandate earlier this year on the grounds that available coronavirus vaccines violated their religious beliefs due to links to aborted fetal tissue, according to Doughty’s ruling. “They also dissented because the vaccine was approved for emergency use only and was therefore experimental.”
VCOM initially rejected the dissents before granting conditional religious exemptions for the three students after Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican, and the students sued the school this month, the Center Square reported. Landry dropped out of the suit after Doughty questioned
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