Fri May 12, 2023 – 4:10 pm EDT
DESTIN, Florida (LifeSiteNews) – Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a quartet of new medical freedom laws Thursday, reinforcing actions he has already taken against COVID-19 mandates and safeguarding access to alternative treatments from the preferences of the medical establishment.
The legislation forbids private businesses and public entities alike from requiring proof of vaccination or recovery from any disease, forbids discrimination on the basis of vaccination or immunity status, exempts from public records requests information about a patient being discriminated against on the basis of health decisions, creates opt-outs for participation in and/or payment for service to which one has a conscience objection, establishes whistleblower protections for healthcare workers to report wrongdoing, and forbids action from being taken against doctors solely for dissenting from the opinions of the medical establishment.
“Our early actions during the pandemic protected Floridians and their freedoms,” DeSantis said. “We protected the rights of Floridians to make decisions for themselves and their children and rejected COVID theater, narratives, and hysteria in favor of truth and data. These expanded protections will help ensure that medical authoritarianism does not take root in Florida.”
“Governor DeSantis has
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