Thu Mar 17, 2022 – 5:12 pm EDT
BERLIN (LifeSiteNews) — German MPs are debating the introduction of a law that would make vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory for all German citizens over 18. Most of those in favor blamed the unvaccinated for ongoing COVID cases and restrictions.
The German federal parliament held the crucial debate Thursday, but no decision has been made on the issue.
MPs were divided about whether to impose mandatory vaccination on all adults from age 18, on adults over 50 only, or not at all.
Among those in favor of a universal mandatory vaccination policy for all adults over 18, similar to the one introduced in Austria earlier this year and recently lifted, was Heike Baehrens, spokeswoman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
To back up the idea of practically coercing the population to be injected with the experimental mRNA vaccines, Baehrens and other MPs cited a potential new wave of COVID infections that they expect will come in the fall.
“We must fundamentally create the conditions to ensure that we are not overrun by another wave of infections,” she said.
Baehrens insisted that a high vaccination rate must be achieved by the fall
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