Written by Marilyn W. Thompson ProPublica is an independent journalism organization that seeks to uncover any improper use of power. Register to get our most important stories as soon as they are circulated. Good news for public health crusaders, a federal judge in Montana has obstructed the state from applying a regulation that would make it illegitimate for medical centres to determine if their staff is immunized. The legislation that got passed in 2019 was the most extreme anti-vaccine law the country has ever seen. Health care workers in Montana have taken legal action against the law, asserting that it goes against the civil liberties of disabled people in America. On Friday, Judge Donald W. Molloy of the U.S. District Court gave his consent to their opinion. The ruling of the court also prohibited the state from applying its regulation in any medical care service. ProPublica did a study to observe the adoption of House Bill 702 and explained how a clinic situated nearby the state Capitol needed to make difficult decisions during the COVID-19 outbreak. While arguments were being held in Montana regarding the government’s attempts to stop the virus from increasing, the state’s GOP-led Legislature endorsed the bill. It was established in law that hospitals and medical facilities were not allowed to make vaccinations obligatory. This law was not just for the COVID-19 vaccine, but for every vaccine available, from childhood vaccinations for mumps, measles, and rubella, to adult inoculations. Representative from the Republican Party was the author of this bill, and it made it illegal to move people around in their jobs based on what vaccinations they had.
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