Rep. Joe Sosnowski (R-Rockford), a staunch critic of vaccine mandates, Sosnowski took to Twitter last month to lambast a New York judge who prohibited an unvaccinated man from seeing his daughter during a custody dispute. | facebook.com/repsosnowski
Rep. Joe Sosnowski (R-Rockford), a staunch critic of vaccine mandates, Sosnowski took to Twitter last month to lambast a New York judge who prohibited an unvaccinated man from seeing his daughter during a custody dispute. | facebook.com/repsosnowski
A state representative has filed a measure that would override vaccine requirements in the event a person can show antibody presence.
Rep. Joe Sosnowski (R-Rockford), along with Rep. Tom Weber (R-Fox Lake), introduced House Bill 4204 on Nov. 4. Rep. Amy Elik (R- Fosterburg) is another co-sponsor.
“HB4204 is to protect the rights of individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 from being forced to comply with any state or private vaccine mandate when that person can demonstrate natural immunity through a positive COVID antibody test,” Sosnowski wrote on Facebook.
A staunch critic of vaccine mandates, Sosnowski took to Twitter last month to lambast a New York judge who prohibited an unvaccinated man from seeing his daughter during a custody dispute, musing, "Maybe we are going a little too far?"
Sosnowski enlisted Elik on Nov. 9, a day after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed an amendment to the state’s Right of Conscience Act into law, removing "conscience" as a reason to eschew the COVID-19 vaccine, ABC5 Chicago reported. The amendment goes into effect June 1, 2022.
The 43-year-old Right to Conscience Act shields doctors who refuse to perform abortions because of a religious or moral objection from disciplinary action. Lately, some doctors had been acting under it to serve patients who were against masking and vaccination.
“Masks, vaccines and testing requirements are life-saving measures that keep our workplaces and communities safe,” Pritzker said in a statement, ABC5 reported. “Keeping workplaces safe is a high priority, and I applaud the General Assembly for ensuring that the Health Care Right of Conscience Act is no longer wrongly used against institutions who are putting safety and science first.”
Republican state legislators have voiced their opposition to the new law.
Sen. Darren Bailey (R-Louisville) asserted that Pritzker and the Democrats forsook families.
"Pritzker and the Democratic Party have completely abandoned the working people and families of this state,” Bailey tweeted. “He continues to strip individual freedoms and make decisions that should be between an individual and their doctor one that is met with continued government force.”
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