Call to Veto

Governor Murphy:
Veto Medical Tyranny in New Jersey!
As the Year Ends NJ’s Legislature Passes
More Big Pharma Bills
Contact Gov. Murphy Here
https://nj.gov/governor/contact/
609-292-6000 / constituent.relations@nj.gov

CALL FOR GOVERNOR TO VETO
TWO HEALTH CHOICE RESTRICTION BILLS

This past Monday, 16 December 2019, we watched the mass demonstration in Trenton supporting religious conscientious objections to forced school vaccination that stopped Senate Bill S2173. 

While thousands of families stormed Trenton and successfully stopped the State Legislature from abrogating long-standing religious conscientious objections to forced vaccination this past week, at the same time the same legislators did adopt two bills that take New Jersey a long way toward medical tyranny.

First, it quietly passed an anti-free speech Dietitian Licensing Law which monopolizes all speech about nutrition in the hands of state-licensed dietitians. That is bill A1582/S2625.

The last time the State Legislature did this was in 1994, and that was just a certification law, not a mandatory licensing law. Then Governor Christie Todd Whitman vetoed the Bill saying that it would not offer further protection to New Jersians.

This new dietitians’ monopoly bill clearly seeks to control speech, and specifically speech about health and wellness, as well as speech about what people eat, a matter impressed with significant privacy interests. This law suppresses speech about health and food. It may also violate Federal Anti-Trust law; see: https://regproject.org/paper/state-licensing-boards-antitrust-innovation/

Second, at the same time the State Legislature sent a new health care worker forced vaccination bill to the Governor as well. That bill is A1576/S1003. The bill allows for no religious conscientious objections to the flu vaccine, although that position violates Federal law, which requires employers to accommodate workers’ religious beliefs. This law forces workers to remain silent and not express their lawful refusal to give Informed Consent to “unavoidably unsafe” vaccines.

Both bills being sent to the Governor violate Informed Consent, free speech and privacy.

Federal law is very clear with regard to the Right of the People to Truthful Health Information. That is at the heart of the First Amendment. The 2002 case of Thompson v Western States (535 U.S. 357) explicitly deals with efforts by government to control speech about health. Justice O’Connor, writing for the majority stated: 

“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that regulating speech must be a last – not first – resort… We have previously rejected the notion that the Government has an interest in preventing the dissemination of truthful commercial information in order to prevent members of the public from making bad decisions with the information.”

We now therefore call upon Governor Murphy to veto these bills as they tend toward creating monopolies, violate free speech, and deny New Jersians access to valid information about vaccination and nutrition. They increase health care costs.

New Jersey needs freedom of choice in health care, not new restrictions passed in near secrecy during the rush to adjourn for the Holidays.

Governor Murphy, do not give Big Pharma lobbyists control over our health care workers and our nutritionists! Just say “NO!” and give us the gift of freedom.

Contact Gov. Murphy Here
https://nj.gov/governor/contact/
609-292-6000 / constituent.relations@nj.gov