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Despite decades of limited gains from animal testing of drugs meant for humans, FDA leadership continues to block and ignore state-of-the-art alternatives that would likely end outdated and cruel animal testing and speed up investigational drug development.

The Biden administration is not filled with “follow the science” technocrats, but anti-science, ideological busybodies starting at the top.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino submitted a letter for the official record at the Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee of House Committee on Education and Labor, for its hearing “A Call to Action: Modernizing the Community Services Block Grant.” The letter addresses the “grave religious liberty and fairness interests at stake” in a proposal to reauthorize the CSBG program.

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.”

An advisory panel adopts a highly casual attitude toward approving a vaccine whose effects on children are unclear.

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

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.