Rachel N. Morrison is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she directs EPPC’s HHS Accountability Project. As 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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States v. the FDA: Telemedicine and Mifepristone
Villanova Student Chapter
Villanova Law299 N. Spring Mill Rd.
Villanova, PA 19085
A Debate: Biden's Title Nine Overhaul
Illinois Student Chapter
University Illinois law school504 E Pennsylvania Ave, Champaign, IL 61820
Champaign, IL 61820
"Gender-Affirming Care" : Legal Right or Irreversible Harm?
North Dakota Student Chapter
UND School of Law room 203215 Centennial Dr, Grand Forks, ND 58202
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Gender Identity Policy Under the Biden Administration
North Dakota Student Chapter
University of NorthDakota215 Centennial Dr, Grand Forks, ND 58202
Grand Forks, ND 58201
Gender Identity Policy in the Biden Administration
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