Rachel N. Morrison

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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.

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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.

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EPPC Scholar Files Supreme Court Brief Supporting Petition Challenging Lack of Religious Exemptions in New…

Rachel N. Morrison

On March 18, 2022, EPPC Fellow Rachel N. Morrison filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case Dr. A. v. Hochul,…

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EPPC Scholars Meet with Federal Officials to Discuss Concerns Over Upcoming Title IX Rule

Rachel N. Morrison

EPPC fellows Rachel N. Morrison and Mary Hasson met with federal government officials to discuss concerns over an upcoming proposed rule by the Department of Education that would impact Title IX regulations. EPPC scholars shared eight major points of concern, including the harms of redefining “sex discrimination” to include “gender identity.”

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EPPC Scholars Submit Public Comment Opposing HHS’s Proposed Insurance Mandate for Transgender Puberty-Blocking Drugs, Cross-Sex…

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On January 27, 2022, EPPC scholars Ryan T. Anderson, Roger Severino, Rachel N. Morrison, and Mary Rice Hasson submitted a public…

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EPPC Scholars Submit Public Comment Opposing OSHA’s Unlawful Vaccine Mandate

Roger Severino

EPPC scholars Roger Severino, Rachel N. Morrison, Dr. David Gortler, and Dr. Aaron Kheriaty submitted a public comment opposing finalization of OSHA’s rule that would mandate COVID-19 vaccination in workplaces.

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Publications / January 20, 2022

EPPC Scholars Submit Public Comment Opposing Proposal to Eliminate Protections for Faith-Based Contractors

Roger Severino

EPPC scholars Roger Severino and Rachel N. Morrison submitted a public comment opposing a proposal by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to rescind various protections for faith-based contractors that allow them to partner with the federal government and serve the American people without having to abandon tenets of their faith or their religious identity.

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Publications / December 10, 2021

EPPC Scholar Files Second Circuit Brief Supporting Challenge to Lack of Religious Exemptions in New…

Rachel N. Morrison

EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison filed a second amici brief in Dr. A. v. Hochul—a case challenging the lack of religious exemptions in New York’s vaccine mandate—but this time in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Publications / December 9, 2021

EPPC Scholar Files Supreme Court Brief Supporting Challenge to Lack of Religious Exemptions in New…

Rachel N. Morrison

EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison filed a motion and proposed Supreme Court amici brief in support of an emergency application challenging New York’s vaccine mandate.

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Publications / November 16, 2021

When Are Religious Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Required?

Rachel N. Morrison

Maine’s flat denial of religious accommodations for employees who object to receiving COVID-19 vaccines is not only unusual, it is unlawful.

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National Review Online / November 10, 2021

Twelve States Stand up to Becerra’s Efforts to Fund Planned Parenthood Under Title X

Rachel N. Morrison

A group of twelve states led by Ohio has sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Secretary Xavier Becerra over new Title X regulations that would take family-planning money away from the states and give it to America’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.

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National Review Online / November 9, 2021

EPPC Scholar Comment for Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Meeting

Rachel N. Morrison

EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison submitted a public comment to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, urging the committee “to consider ways to incentivize, procure, and require production of vaccines that do not have connections to aborted fetal cell lines so that everyone in the U.S. that desires a vaccine to prevent serious disease in themselves and others can receive one without violating their conscience or religious beliefs.”

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In OSHA We Trust?

Roger Severino

The administration is exploiting a little-used OSHA ‘emergency’ standard to do its dirty work of coercing millions of Americans to get vaxxed.

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National Review Online / October 28, 2021

EPPC Scholars Meet with Federal Officials to Discuss Concerns Over OSHA’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Rule

Rachel N. Morrison

EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison and EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino met with federal government officials to discuss concerns over OSHA’s COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard Rulemaking.

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