NJ's Assemblyman Conaway is back to blur the lines between doctors' orders and law
New Jersey Assemblyman Herb Conaway is making the rounds again and putting some health freedom advocates on high alert.
There’s some history here…
There are legislators championing vaccine mandates throughout the country, particularly on the coasts. Maybe they all believe that all vaccines are “safe and effective” and the best available solution. But they still need to participate in a democratic process.
There’s clearly a system in place to assign important decisions that impact all of us to people who will stop at nothing to achieve a singular, myopic goal, regardless of any new evidence that comes along.
We need to change that.
Assemblyman Conaway is the only member of NJ’s legislature to hold both an M.D. degree and a J.D. degree. He also chairs the Assembly Health Committee and is director of the Burlington County Health Department.
Deference to authority serves him well.
Those who fought to preserve New Jersey’s religious exemption to mandatory vaccination are very familiar with his views on vaccine mandates:
“I was convinced when you took everything together, the uncomfortable nature of asking someone about their religious tenets, and the difficulty government has in deciding whether those religious tenets are bona fide, that it would be simpler to remove the religious exemption, in furtherance of the goal of near universal mandatory vaccination.”
- Asm Herb Conaway
New Jersey Coalition for Vaccination Choice (NJCVC) and Innovative Parenting have been sounding the alarm about proposed legislation that Conaway has recently introduced.
Here are the new bills:
A5750 is an uncharacteristic nod to parental consent. It “requires age verification and parent or guardian consent for minor’s use of social media platform; prohibits certain messaging between adults and minors on social media platform.”
The verbiage of the bill has yet to be released, but the implication is that impressionable young people could be negatively impacted by messaging and may need the oversight of parents. (Interestingly, social media remains one of the few places young people can go to access information outside of the mainstream narrative.)
As Innovative Parenting points out, Conaway is also the sponsor of A2328/A4231 which “Permits minors 13 years of age and older to consent to behavioral health care services.”
Does anyone else see a NJ bill theme here? Remove parental rights to guide minors regarding medical interventions and mental health services but empower parents via legislation to guide minors regarding social media use. #njinsanity
It would be interesting to learn how Conaway feels about A2679, which “permits minors aged 14 years or older to consent to certain vaccines without permission of parent or guardian.” (Many of us suspect we know the answer and remain vigilant of bills like this one.)
More predictably, Assemblyman Conaway introduced A5753, which “Requires certain health care facilities to institute COVID-19 vaccine policy for employees.”
As other institutions abandon nonsensical Covid vaccine mandates, the assemblyman clings to vaccines. And coercion. This is the the Conaway much of New Jersey has come to know.
And finally, A5752: “Expands authority of pharmacy technician in administering drugs and vaccines and permits pharmacists and pharmacy interns, externs, and technicians to administer COVID-19 vaccine.”
…So essentially a bill that would expand the ranks of “just following orders.”
Perhaps this is a good time to remember that “just following orders” enables those who create the orders to make others participants in what may ultimately be crimes against humanity.