A second Christian nurse practitioner has sued CVS Health alleging the company fired her after revoking a longstanding religious accommodation because of her Catholic beliefs about certain contraceptives.
First Liberty Institute, the law firm Boyden Gray & Associates, and the law firm Lawson Huck Gonzalez, PLLC, filed a federal lawsuit against the company on Jan. 18 on behalf of Gunna Kristofersdottir.
Kristofersdottir, a nurse practitioner employed by a CVS MinuteClinic in Tequesta, Florida, was granted a religious accommodation from prescribing contraception from 2014 to 2022. During that period, on a few occasions, if a patient asked for such a prescription, she referred them to another CVS MinuteClinic provider who satisfied the request, according to First Liberty.
As CBN News has reported, in August 2021, CVS suddenly announced it was revoking all religious accommodations that allowed providers to refrain from prescribing pregnancy-prevention drugs.
Kristofersdottir has worked for more than 20 years as a nurse practitioner and holds an M.S. in Nursing from the University of Nevada and a B.S. in Nursing from the University of Iceland. She was notified by her supervisor in March 2022 that CVS would no longer honor her religious accommodation for hormonal contraceptives. The supervisor said that others
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