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 even in an emergency or in a pandemic:
a) Any attempt to mandate, force, or coerce any medical test, procedure, blood, or product, including vaccines or masks.
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, or access state services.
c) The denial of any public service or benefit based on vaccination status.
d) Any mandates by public, private, government, or medical entities for treatment, vaccination, vaccine passports, mask requirements, or health insurance surcharges.
e) Any involuntary isolation or quarantine of anyone not experiencing an active contagious infection.
f) Any withholding of the risks and benefits of a proposed intervention, including quantifiable adverse effects, that must be equally communicated and accessible to the patient or to a minor patient’s parents or guardian.
g) Any prevention of visitation to the ill when risks are acknowledged and mitigated according to patient and visitor choice.
h) 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.
i) Any tracing of individuals by cell phones or another means for any reason without an individual court-issued warrant.
j) Any requirement that a nurse practitioner can only provide healthcare to Texans under a delegation agreement with a physician in the State of Texas.
k) 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 changing their healthcare provider.
l) Any jeopardization of the statutorily protected right of Texans to utilize the Texas Exemption from Immunizations for Reasons of Conscience Affidavit without scrutiny or adverse action.
m) Any denial of directed or autologous blood donation.