Rachel N. Morrison
Fellow
Rachel N. Morrison is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she directs EPPC’s HHS Accountability Project. An attorney, her legal and policy work focuses on religious liberty, health care rights of conscience, the right to life, nondiscrimination, and civil rights.
Rachel N. Morrison is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she directs EPPC’s HHS Accountability Project. An attorney, her legal and policy work focuses on religious liberty, health care rights of conscience, the right to life, nondiscrimination, and civil rights.
Before joining EPPC, Ms. Morrison served as an Attorney Advisor and Special Assistant to General Counsel Sharon Fast Gustafson at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), where she focused on religious discrimination issues and was a member of the General Counsel’s Religious Discrimination Work Group. Before that, she served as Litigation Counsel for Americans United for Life and as a Constitutional Law Fellow at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, defending the right to life and religious freedom for all. She also clerked on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Ms. Morrison’s legal analysis has been published in the Seton Hall Law Review, the Pepperdine Law Review, and the Ave Maria Law Review, as well as various other print media outlets.
Ms. Morrison earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the Pepperdine University School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as an editor for the Pepperdine Law Review and the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. She received her B.A. in Mathematics and Speech Communication, summa cum laude, from Whitworth University (Spokane, WA). She is a member of the District of Columbia and the Washington State bars.
Ms. Morrison lives with her husband and daughter in Virginia.
The Medical Community Should Care About Biden’s Proposed Title IX Regulations
Rachel N. Morrison
HS is using a nondiscrimination law to push a medical standard of care.
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National Review Online / August 31, 2022
Biden Education Department’s Fake Punt on Women’s Sports
Rachel N. Morrison
Nowhere do the proposed regulations explicitly state that participation in sex-specific sports must (or may) be based on biological sex
Articles
Newsweek / August 9, 2022
Department of Education Proposes Title IX Rule with Opportunity for Public Comment
Rachel N. Morrison
In line with the Biden administration’s equity and gender identity policy priorities, the Department of Education (ED) has proposed new regulations on Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded educational programs and activities.
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The Federalist Society Blog / July 26, 2022
The Biden Administration’s Post-Dobbs, Post-Roe Response
Rachel N. Morrison
The White House, HHS, DOJ, and other federal agencies have been issuing statements and policy positions under existing law at a steady pace.
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The Federalist Society / July 14, 2022
Biden Issues Executive Order Promoting “LGBTQI+” Policies
Rachel N. Morrison
President Joe Biden issued yet another executive order promoting his administration’s “LGBTQI+” policies.
Articles
FedSoc Blog / June 23, 2022
EPPC Files Brief in Suit Challenging HHS Transgender Mandate
Rachel N. Morrison
EPPC has filed a friend-of-court brief in support of a lawsuit challenging a mandate by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requiring healthcare providers under the guise of nondiscrimination to perform and provide insurance coverage for “gender-transition procedures.”
PDF / June 22, 2022
Biden DOJ Letter Pushes Transgender Misinformation and Implies Gender Dysphoria Is a Disability
Rachel N. Morrison
The very treatments pushed by the Biden administration as harmless and routine are, in fact, experimental and progressively sterilizing and irreversible.
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National Review Online / May 16, 2022
Gender Identity Policy Under the Biden Administration
Rachel N. Morrison
With the Equality Act facing difficult odds in the Senate, the Biden administration has imposed its gender identity policies through its regulatory and enforcement powers. These policies largely ignore competing interests or rights of women, children, and religious organizations and persons.
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Federalist Society Review, Volume 23 / May 2, 2022