Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued Executive Order GA-40 on Monday which bans any entity in the state of Texas from mandating the COVID-19 vaccine.
“No entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine by any individual, including an employee or a consumer, who objects to such vaccination for any reason of personal conscience, based on a religious belief, or for medical reasons, including prior recovery from COVID-19. I hereby suspend all relevant statutes to the extent necessary to enforce this prohibition,” the order states.
“The COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective, & our best defense against the virus, but should always remain voluntary & never forced,” the governor stated in a tweet.
I issued an Executive Order prohibiting vaccine mandates by ANY entity in Texas.
I also added the issue to the Special Session agenda.
The COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective, & our best defense against the virus, but should always remain voluntary & never forced. pic.twitter.com/8hHHLyebCk
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) October 11, 2021
The message is clear: The vaccine is good. Take it or don’t. This has not stopped the left from losing their minds.
Chris Cillizza, political commentator and editor-at-large at CNN, has called the order a “massive government overreach.”
How can Abbott justify what would be seen as a massive government overreach if a Democratic governor had done it?https://t.co/lcUpYsR9Re
— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) October 12, 2021
“Aren’t Republicans like Abbott in the party that holds, as one of their core beliefs, that government should not intrude in individuals’ lives? That the government that governs least governs best?” Cillizza says. “And following that logic, Abbott telling private companies what to do is, literally, the exact opposite of that governing philosophy, right? Right?”
Wrong! The executive order does not ban the vaccine in Texas, it only bans the vaccine mandate. Government overreach would be if the governor did not allow for vaccines at all, but as Abbott clearly says, the choice to vaccinate should “remain voluntary and never forced.”
Which is the exact opposite of the argument being made by Cillizza.
Andy Slavitt, the former Biden White House senior advisor for the COVID response and past head of Medicare/Medicaid for President Obama, also took to Twitter.
“Abbott cares about his radical ideology, but nothing about Texans. Gov. Greg Abbott Bars Vaccine Mandates in Texas,” Slavitt states.
Abbott cares about his radical ideology, but nothing about Texans.
Gov. Greg Abbott Bars Vaccine Mandates in Texas https://t.co/BFwo5T0hlL
— Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉 (@ASlavitt) October 12, 2021
Interesting. A literal mandate: totally fine. Giving the choice back to sovereign individuals: radical ideology. It is a little hard to take the criticism seriously when Slavitt was, at one point, a face mask salesmen, according to Axios.
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— Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉 (@ASlavitt) August 19, 2020
In a free country such as the United States, citizens should have the right to choose whether or not to inject a foreign substance into their body, and one should not be compelled to action by any other individual, entity, or government. Being compelled to action is precisely what makes the vaccine mandate unconstitutional, as it is a direct violation of the natural rights that our Constitution was written to protect. The Texas executive order does not ban the vaccine, it simply bans anyone else from making the choice for others.
I agree with Gov. Abbott! An individual should have the right to chose what they want. This is not Nazi Germany, but OBiden thinks it is!
My body…my choice! Favorite Marxist Democrat saying about abortions. Same goes for vaccinations. Mandates are so unnecessary and absolutely wrong.
Let’s Go Brandon!!!…Hooray for Governor Abbott!!!
as Dave Spade said – my body, my choice. I know more people who have been hospitalized or killed by the vaccines than died with Covid (notice I said “with” not “from”).
The same Andy Slavitt who ping pongs between United Health Care boardroom and plum CMS government post? The Andy Slavitt who profited handsomely from being allowed to sell his UHC stock for big $$ before going to CMS? That Andy Slavitt? The left demands nothing less than total hypocrisy.
The unconstitutional mandate is like the Nazis in Germany demanding to see your papers so you may travel from your home to the grocery store. Dictatorship in the making and the treasonous president is the dictator.
It is NOT a vaccine and is safe/effective to harm/kill off people it seems. It is a bio-weapon to lower the population/gene change/makes the Spike protein in people nonstop which makes them test positive and get sick and they can shed the virus to others. Get rid of the vaccine company immunity since other vaccines are hurting kids also. It is their way to make money/lower the population at the same time and usher in the New World order/UN/China/”the left”. ~16,000 died from the pretend vaccine and that is ~1% of what is happening. Others died from the treatment..ventilators/R and M drug that hurt the kidneys/suppressed breathing etc.. This is a plandemic…man made to push their agenda.
Hospitals love COVID and a COVID diagnosis. A hospital gets over $13,000 for a COVID diagnosis and $39,000 for putting a COVID patient on a forced air ventilator.
A hospital get bitkis for a FLU diagnosis.
Perhaps if instead of continually telling people, you have to do this, you need to do this, to a people who don’t like to be ordered around and instead gave people facts about the vaccines development they could easily understand and explaining the science instead simply saying trust us yet not telling what to trust, vaccination rates would be much higher. There are probably more vaccinations from people having things explained by their own physicians than any of the back and forth political jargon that constantly gets debated and always getting constantly pitched at people.
MY BODY MY CHOICE! Or does that only apply to the murder of an unborn child by democrat female breeders?