Mon Aug 30, 2021 – 5:20 pm EDT
HELENA, Montana (LifeSiteNews) — Although many Republican-led states have banned COVID-19 injection mandates and compulsory vaccine passports to access public venues, almost all have stopped short at preventing employers from forcing their employees to get the jab.
To date only one state has stood up to protect the rights of employees to refuse the COVID-19 injection: Montana.
Earlier this year the legislature of Republican-led, largely rural Montana passed a law which prohibited requiring the shot as a condition of employment, calling such mandates “discriminatory” and a human rights violation, the Associated Press reported.
Passed by Montana’s legislature in May 2021, HB 702 came under fire this month after a group of physicians tried to pressure the government to reverse the measure.
Montana Medical Association president Dr. Pamela Cutler called the law protecting the freedom of Montanans to refuse the jab a “travesty,” arguing that it “is against everything we’ve ever known or believed about public health,” and “needs to be fixed.”
But the Big Sky State’s Republican governor, Greg Gianforte, is not backing down.
In an August 24 press conference, Gianforte warned about the Delta variant but said
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