A lawyer for 17 doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals who object on religious grounds to New York’s tough vaccine mandate for health care workers filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court late on Nov. 12, claiming the state’s governor is waging “a veritable religious crusade to force medical professionals to be vaccinated.” The application is pending before a Supreme Court that has been reluctant to block mandates requiring people to accept vaccinations aimed at the CCP virus that causes the disease COVID-19 but has been willing to curtail pandemic-related restrictions when religious freedoms have been threatened. In New York, for example, a year ago the high court blocked on a 5-4 vote then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo from enforcing restrictions on attendance at houses of worship, as The Epoch Times previously reported. All 17 applicants—16 Catholics and 1 Baptist—have sincere religious objections to the vaccines because they come from “abortion-derived [human] fetal cell lines …