Bills to Watch in NJ
New Jersey Assemblyman Herb Conaway recently introduced a number of new bills, putting a number of health freedom advocates on high alert, particularly during New Jersey’s lame duck session (post-election through January 2024).
Assemblyman Conaway – the only member of NJ’s legislature to hold both an M.D. degree and a J.D. degree – is a staunch vaccine advocate who is known for introducing bills that mandate vaccinations or restrict/eliminate exemptions to mandated vaccines.
Those who fought to preserve New Jersey’s religious exemption to mandatory vaccination in 2019/2020 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
Conaway also chairs the Assembly Health Committee and is director of the Burlington County Health Department. This is someone who decides what bills go up for vote and has a role in determining how health departments apply these laws.
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. The bill “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
Given this, New Jerseyans are also advised to keep an eye on A2679, which “permits minors aged 14 years or older to consent to certain vaccines without permission of parent or guardian.”
More predictably, Assemblyman Conaway has 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.”
This is 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 complicit in the harm that these vaccines may cause.
If you would like to express your concerns about any of these bills, you can contact Assemblyman Conaway at (856) 461-3997 or by clicking here.
You can follow Innovative Parenting NJ, New Jersey Public Health Innovation PAC & Stand for Health Freedom (NJ) for NJ Advocacy Alerts.