Tue Mar 8, 2022 – 10:44 pm EST
CHICAGO (LifeSiteNews) – Former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Francis Collins laughed about pressuring unvaccinated employees to get COVID shots and defended NIH-funded experiments on aborted babies in leaked audio obtained by The Daily Wire.
Collins, who stepped down from the NIH last month and has since been appointed Joe Biden’s presidential science adviser, made the comments during an October event at the University of Chicago, The Daily Wire reported. Prominent evangelical Russell Moore hosted the event for the Institute of Politics, a group founded by David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s campaign strategist.
Collins, a self-described evangelical Christian, strongly endorsed jab mandates at the private event, telling students with Axelrod’s institute that the federal government has the authority to compel people to get jabbed. “The U.S. government does have the authority to mandate vaccinations if there is an outbreak that is threatening people, because it’s not just about you, it’s about the people you’re going to infect,” Collins said. “There’s no question in my mind that the mandates are legal.”
In a previous interview with Moore just six months prior, Collins had promised evangelicals that there would be no
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