Subject: HB4047 - Does **NOT** contain "informed consent" language
From: Matthew Dent
To: gmarnon
Date: 03-03-2021 9:19 PM
Greetings!
I read your recent article about HB4047's "Informed Consent" language (
https://rtl.org/legislature-coronavirus-vaccine-informed-consent-2021/) and looked up the statute in it's current state (Michigan Senate Substitute Resolution -
https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2021-2022/billconcurred/House/htm/2021-HCB-4047.htm )
HB4047 Section 255, part 1 states: "From the funds appropriated in part 1 for federal COVID immunization and vaccine grant reserve fund, the department of health and human services shall allocate $36,746,600.00 to manage the administration of a coronavirus vaccine to all Michigan residents through financial support to local health departments and other health care providers."
The phrase, "to manage the administration of a coronavirus vaccine to all Michigan residents" does not seem to provide for any "consent" mechanism - but rather seems to imply a mandate that a vaccine will be administered to all Michigan residents.
Furthermore - Section 259, which contains the language concerning abortive fetal cell lines states: "A recipient of a COVID-19 vaccine administered from the funds appropriated in part 1 for federal COVID immunization and vaccine grant reserve fund shall be provided with information or informed if and in what manner the development of the vaccine utilized aborted fetal tissue or human embryonic stem cell derivation lines."
This language contains no requirement for "consent" only that information be provided. Nowhere does it indicate that the vaccine can be declined. And, furthermore, the language is written such that the requirement to provide the information does not kick in until AFTER administration of the vaccine ("A recipient" of an "administered" vaccine (PAST TENSE!) would imply that the deed has been done. In short, and the whole statement effectively says - AFTER the vaccine has been injected, the person who received the vaccine must be informed.)
This seems actually WORSE than some sort of "don't ask don't tell" policy where you just get injected and nobody tells you it was done with a vaccine derived from fetal tissue.
I'm not sure where you got your info, but it seems someone is trying to bait-and-switch or pull the wool over people's eyes and give a false sense of security while burdening the conscience of those who would receive the vaccine and find out AFTER THE FACT that it was derived from fetal tissue.
-- Matt Dent
