Medical Freedom & Texas Republicans
Every two years, thousands of grassroot Republican voters from around Texas gather at a State Convention. This gathering determines what it means to be a Republican in Texas.
One of the most important ways this happens is the development of the official platform of the Texas Republican Party. This document lays out in pain staking detail what the Texas Republican Party believes - not everyone agrees with everything - but it is a pretty amazing document.
The Grimes County Republican Party would like to remind Republican voters what we are fighting to support by highlighting various planks of our Texas Republican Platform.
Plank 130 Medical Freedom says (buckle up - it's a long one!):
"We call for an addition to the Texas Bill of Rights that explicitly states that Texans have the natural, inalienable right to refuse vaccination or other medical treatment. Our personal healthcare decisions are private, and informed consent is a basic human right. Therefore, the following are expressly forbidden, including in an emergency or in a pandemic:
a) Any attempt by any public, private, government, or medical entity to mandate, force, coerce, or condition access to service on receiving any medical test, procedure, blood product, vaccine, mask, treatment, vaccine verification, or health insurance surcharge.
b) Any attempt to use a citizen’s vaccination status as a condition to maintain or obtain housing or employment or employee benefits, attend school or childcare, access state or local government services, or participate in organ transplants and all medical care.
c) Any involuntary isolation or quarantine of anyone not experiencing an active contagious infection.
d) Any use of experimental medications, vaccines, treatments, or products, without disclosing known risks, benefits, and quantifiable adverse effects.
e) Any Nuremberg Code violations including, but not limited to, the requirement that experimental-use medications, vaccines, or other treatments, must provide full knowledgeable consent and be free from any form of coercion or inducement.
f) Any prevention of visitation to the ill when risks are acknowledged and mitigated, assuming patient and visitor consent.
g) Any tracing of individuals by cell phones or any other means, for any reason, without an individual court-issued warrant.
h) Any requirement restricting nurse practitioners from providing healthcare except under a delegation agreement with a Texas-licensed physician.
i) Any holding of an individual against their will (or that of their parent or guardian) in a hospital or residential care facility, or preventing an individual from getting a second opinion or changing their healthcare provider.
j) Any compromise of the statutorily protected right of Texans to use the Texas Exemption from Immunizations for Reasons of Conscience Affidavit without scrutiny or adverse action.
k) Any denial of directed or autologous blood donation.
l) Any state or federal medical record storage of personal identifiable records on citizens without their written consent. All medical service providers, including insurance providers, must implement and maintain a high-level technology security safeguard for consumers and patients to prevent financial losses and life-threatening delays in treatments due to breaches in one or more databases, third-party communications, or simultaneous hacks causing egregious delays and financial hardship to doctors and clinics."
The Texas Republican Party understands that healthcare is deeply personal and that informed consent isn't a right granted by government but by God.
