Thus far, no judge has granted a countrywide order to protect all active-duty members from prospective consequences for refusing to comply with the vaccine requirement. As such a climate prevails, a female Air Force officer has become the first to get an exemption from Covid vaccine mandate on religious grounds over the jab's connection to abortion.
Because of the vaccine's 'connection to abortion,' a federal judge in Georgia has momentarily permitted an Air Force member to stay unvaccinated against COVID, marking her the first person of the branch to be exempted from the military-wide requirement, reports Daily Mail.
According to court records (read below), U.S. District Court Judge Tillman E. Self III issued a preliminary injunction for the anonymous Air Force Reserve officer on Tuesday.
The Air Force's system for accepting a low number of religion-based coronavirus vaccine exemptions was labelled as 'illusory and insincere' in the judge's ruling.
The Air Force ...