Leslie Manookian, president and founder of Health Freedom Defense Fund, who helped lawmakers craft the bill, welcomed the signing of the bill.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed legislation that bans businesses and schools from requiring customers, employees, and students to receive a vaccine or another medical procedure.
Little on April 4 signed the Idaho Medical Freedom Act, or Senate Bill 1210.
West Virginia has a new governor, and he wasted no time granting parents the freedom to claim a religious vaccine exemption to opt their children out of required school vaccinations.
Just 24 hours after his inauguration, Republican Governor Patrick Morrisey signed an Executive Order that allows parents to claim religious or moral exemptions for their students to attend state schools and state-regulated childcare centers—a monumental shift for a state historically known for having some of the strictest vaccine mandates in the country. READ MORE…
The court held that “[t]his misapplies Jacobson,” which “did not involve a claim in which the compelled vaccine was ‘designed to reduce symptoms in the infected vaccine recipient rather than to prevent transmission and infection.”’ Jacobson does not, the majority concluded, extend to “forced medical treatment” for the benefit of the recipient.
VLA Comment: Brilliant! In Jacabson vs. Mass. there was a State interest that compelled the decision to mandate the Small Pox vaccines because it allegedly “prevented the spread”. The ninth district found that the Covid 19 vaccine did not prevent the spread of the disease but was only a treatment for individuals to mitigate the symptoms. Hence Jacobson did not apply.