New Hampshire has recently passed some laws that advance Health Freedom, including a bill prohibiting healthcare providers from refusing care or services based on vaccination status.
HB1003 is An ACT “prohibiting health care providers from refusing to provide care or services based on patient vaccination status.”
It’s my favorite sort of bill. Short, sweet, and to the point.
52:1 New Paragraph; Patients’ Bill of Rights; Vaccination Status. Amend RSA 151:21 by inserting after paragraph XXI the following new paragraph:
XXII. The patient shall not be denied admission, care, or services based solely on the patient’s vaccination status.
52:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
That’s the whole thing. Nice work, that.
HB1035 removes the requirement that any religious exemption from vaccination needs to be notarized. Parents can submit a form with their objection to a school, and the school is required to honor that request.
II. A parent or legal guardian objects to immunization because of religious beliefs. The parent or legal guardian shall sign a [notarized] form stating that the child has not been immunized because of religious beliefs.
55:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
And HB1608 requires the New Hampshire State Department of Health and Human Services to advertise (notify the public) that their constitutional right to privacy (New Hampshire has one of those) allows them to be removed from the state’s vaccine registry.
Here’s the Right in Article 2-b: “An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.”
And this, from HB1608.
The general court finds that the state should not continue to keep the private medical information of individuals that were not afforded the opportunity to choose if they wished it to be collected.
The COVID era brought unprecedented attempts to violate bodily autonomy and privacy. And while we’ve not been able to eliminate the vaccine registry itself, this at least requires DHHS to let people know they can ask to get off the list if they are on it and DHHS has to remove them.
Not massive changes, but necessary, and we can add them to a growing list of bills that are taking back or adding health freedoms post-COVID-tyranny.
And there’s plenty of work left to do, but it’s nice to see them put some points on the board.
