We lost a Fight But The Battle is Not Over !!
On Tuesday May 16th the NY Assembly Health Committee passed 2 Bills that violate parental rights and medical privacy.
A276b (The Minor Consent Bill)
and A7154 (Adult Vaccine Database Bill)
Even though these bills passed, I believe it was very important that we should up and were in the room as they were voting. They clearly did not want us in that room as they attempted to remove us by calling the Sergeant of Arms, told us it was a private meeting (which it wasn’t), then tried to tell us it was a fire hazard and we needed to only have 10 people present. Thanks to Rita Palma who pushed back and asked to see the written policy on Fire safety protocol and maximum capacity numbers. They didn’t or couldn’t produce it so we stayed. The Public Servants were clearly and visibly nervous. Please stay tuned for next action Alerts !! We need all hands on deck !!
Read more about it here
Watch the vote go down here
Below is From John Gilmore of Autism Action Network:
A276b, if it becomes law, will for the first time eliminate parents’ right to decide, or even know, what vaccines their children are given. It would allow any vaccine intended to prevent sexually-transmitted infections to be given to children at whatever the minimum age is for that product set by the FDA, that includes shots for hepatitis b, HPV, and monkey pox, and the group of drugs called “PrEP” that is used to prevent HIV.
The vote on A276b was almost on straight party lines. All 8 Republicans were joined by Democrats Aileen Gunther and Nader Sayegh, to vote No. The remaining 16 Democrats voted Yes. Last week, Democrats Daniel Rosenthal, Michaelle Solages, and Rodneyese Bichotte Hermelyn, as well as Sayegh and Gunther publicly said they opposed A276a, an earlier version of the bill. There are no substantive differences in the bill. It is not clear what convinced them to change their votes.
A7154 was passed as well. This bill removes the obligation of medical workers to get the permission of people receiving a vaccine before a record of the shot is recorded in the state database. If a person requests that the shot not be recorded, then the medical worker is supposed to respect the patient’s wishes. But there is no penalty if they do not. This is an important step towards a completely involuntary vaccine records database which is a necessity for enforcing vaccine passports. The bill was passed on a straight party line vote with all Democrats except Nader Sayegh voting Yes and all the Republicans voting No.
Perhaps as a bone thrown to Jeffrey Dinowitz, the leading drug company shill in the Assembly, the Health Committee passed his A837, a very old bill that requires the state to record and publish on the web the number of medical exemptions from vaccine mandates at every school in the state. This bill predates the repeal of the religious exemption in 2019. Except the New York State Department of Health has had a website doing this since 2015. The bill was passed on a straight party line vote with all Democrats except Nader Sayegh voting Yes, and all the Republicans voted
A276B and A7154 will have to be voted on by the Senate Health Committee, and perhaps other committees, and on the floor of both houses before they can be sent to the Governor. There are no further votes scheduled as of yet. So there are still several barriers to these awful bills moving forward. Stay tuned for further action alerts.
