So much happens that it is easy to miss things. Like a new Maine law signed in 2019 that removed Religious or Philosophical Objections to “Immunization.” This predated COVID, but after experiencing how the “government” handled that, is anyone else concerned?
It started as a way to ensure children had to receive state-recommended immunuzation.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has reportedly signed a bill ending most non-medical exemptions for mandatory childhood vaccines, just days after the first confirmed measles case hit the state.
House Democrats in the state said Friday that Mills had signed the bill, according to multiple local reports. The law eliminates religious and philosophical exemptions in Maine, local ABC affiliate WMTW reported.
Under the new law, only doctors and pediatric primary care givers can determine if a child should receive a medical exemption.
I find it hard to believe anyone would abrogate a legitimate religious exemption in the face of a state law that violates their constitutional rights. And if your kids are vaccinated, what difference (at this point) does it make if that kid is not?
The Maine legislature passed the new vaccine law in 2019. A people’s veto effort to repeal the legislation made it to Maine’s ballot in 2020, but voters rejected that effort by a more than two-to-one margin.
Nice try, but again, the point of constitutional rights is that the Mob can’t deny them. But Maine has done that, and they are excited about the results. Trampling on people’s rights resulted in 95% of kindergartners getting all their immunizations.
And hey, I’m not opposed to that. I got all of mine as a kid. Plenty of vaccines have helped irradicate diseases, like smallpox, a valuable thing to have if you happen to be a gay man this year (it can protect you from monkeypox). But informed consent is the bedrock of health freedom, and religious exemption is a founding principle of our nation.
People risked their lives on an uncertain passage to an unknown wilderness to secure it, and Maine just said F-off.
And what if the state mandates COVID vaccines for kids? Do the parents have to move out of state if they object? That crap has no business being in children’s veins. But every effort is being made to get it in there, and Maine can say sorry. Your religious or philosophical objection is meaningless.
Good luck finding a doctor with the stones to say no under the new medical tyranny.
It irks me.
