For a while it seemed it would be a sedate and quiet session, with legislators tending to business. And in the last couple of days, it seems the crazy stuff is starting to pop up.
Today, we have a second anti-vaxxer measure, solely sponsored by State Representative Phil Jensen:
Nothing in this chapter may be construed to interfere with each person’s inalienable right to bodily integrity. The right to bodily integrity includes being free from any threat or compulsion to accept any medical intervention, including any vaccination.
No person may, as a result of refusing to accept a medical intervention, including any vaccination, be subjected to discrimination or retaliation with respect to association, education, employment, housing, property rights, public accommodations, or public services.
So.. if I’m reading this correctly, not only would grade schools have to accept people who are not vaccinated against measles and polio.. Phil’s bill would have even farther ranging consequences.
If a person appears to be clearly mentally ill, has no interest in treatment, and insists on living on a sidewalk in from of Phil’s house, or place of business, House Bill 1159 seems to give them a.) the right to refuse treatment, and b.) it appears they can’t be retaliated against for choosing to live on the public sidewalk.
Or, even better, someone clearly high on drugs could cut their wrists, and under Phil’s proposal, refuse medical intervention.. and bleed out. Literally, legalizing suicide.
That’s just great. Because legislators need to spend their time with goofy stuff.
Ugh.
He is clearly very bored
Legislators HATE looking at these stupid bills!
The Republican establishment in this state seems to believe all drugs fall into two categories: (1) the kind government should lock you in a cage for using and (2) the kind government should strap you down and forcibly inject.
A person’s body doesn’t belong to the government. It belongs to that person. When government violates an adult’s freedom to decide what goes into his or her body, government violates that person’s God-given right to liberty.
Those of us who support voluntary vaccination obviously don’t appreciate the deceitful “anti-vaxxer” epithet, and we definitely do appreciate Representative Jensen’s efforts to defend our liberty.
every district gets the representation it deserves
I totally agree. District 33 voters elected this bozo how many times? I guess gone are the days when the county party apparatus thoroughly vetted their candidates. Now it seems like a free for all – letting the best person or biggest loon run and possibly win. Bottom line, another wasted seat in the legislature, much like JFM in Dist. 30.