I am in awe that in the “Land of the Free” vaccine passports are now being considered and implemented. So we are returning to an era of “show me your papers”?! Have we learned nothing from history?! Further, the fact that so many businesses and local governments are already requiring it or considering it when it is ILLEGAL for them to require a product that is under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) is extremely disturbing. Under Federal law, products issued with EUA MUST be able to be refused without penalty. If they are already not respecting current federal law, how can we feel comfortable handing more of our life over to the government - trusting them with our private medical information to have access to goods, services, and travel?! The government’s role is NOT to dictate my health. It is however, supposed to uphold the rights on which this country was founded upon. We need to refocus. I urge you to support any legislation that will prevent vaccine passports and oppose any legislation that would make them possible.

Vaccine passports have no place in a free country or a free society. Our founders knew that for people to have liberty, the government's role must be limited. Mandating vaccines through vaccine passports is blatant discrimination and goes directly against our Constitutional rights under the Fifth Amendment - “no person… be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law…” People who choose to not be vaccinated are not criminals and do not deserve to have any rights stripped from them. I urge you to draw the line and oppose vaccine passports in any way, shape or form while supporting legislation that will prevent vaccine passports from coming to Louisiana.

I am a constituent writing to request your support, sponsor, and/or co-sponsor of ANY legislation that prevents vaccine passports. Vaccine passports are unconstitutional, unethical, unnecessary and strip Americans of their rights to liberty, work, bodily autonomy, medical freedom, and family autonomy. A country in which the government closely monitors citizens’ healthcare choices and effectively bans healthy citizens from full social participation is the likes of North Korea or China. To simplify it, this is a bit like a surgeon suggesting two courses of treatment for a patient’s tumor: surgery to remove the tumor or radiation to shrink it. Imagine that surgeon then forcing you to proceed with radiation, despite your apprehensions of long term effects. That does not happen in a free country! This is no different. We can not allow ANY medical procedure, preventative or otherwise, be forced upon people. My final request is that you, as our voice, hear ours and please support ANY legislation that prevents vaccine passports on behalf of your constituents. Thank you for hearing my concerns and position on this very important matter.

History has taught us what God knew all along - blacks are not ¾ human, women are not inferior, and oppression and discrimination are never the answer. We are in a crucial point where some want to turn a group of people into second class citizens, with less rights, less access to goods and services - those without a Covid-19 vaccine. Please don’t let history repeat itself and do whatever you can to prohibit vaccine passports while supporting legislation that would protect the human rights of all Louisianans.

It is extremely distressing that a vaccine passport, with the help of the Biden administration, is being developed. Governor Edwards did not take the opportunity to denounce this in a recent press conference while many other governors across the country have firmly stated this is unconstitutional. Vaccination passports would discriminate based on physical condition, a violation of the constitutionally protected right to Human Dignity identified in the Louisiana State Constitution, Article I, Section 3. And I cannot believe it needs to be said, but coercion has no place in medicine. There is no medicine that is 100% safe for 100% of the population - there will be many and various reasons for people to decline to receive a vaccine, and they are all VALID. To prevent free movement of an individual or prevent commerce because of an individual’s choice to decline a medical procedure is coercion. This is unethical and should be discouraged emphatically instead of being encouraged especially by government entities. Again, I hate to point out the obvious, but if the vaccine works as intended, the vaccinated should not be concerned with anyone else’s vaccination status. In other words, if vaccines work vaccine passports are unnecessary. As a member of our representative body, I implore to sponsor, or co-sponsor, and support any legislation to prevent this incredible infringement on individual liberty.

I feel it is my duty to humanity, and to all future generations, to let you know that Vaccine Passports are unconstitutional, unethical, and unnecessary. First and foremost, Vaccine Passports are Unconstitutional. Mandating a medical procedure with “death” as a known and listed possible side effect violates the constitutionally protected right to life and due process. I find it unthinkable and incredibly inhumane that you would mandate such a product for travel. Second, it is absolutely unethical to enforce Vaccine Passports. This coercive policy is unethical, not based in sound science, and violates the medical ethical doctrine of informed consent, in which a patient has the right to accept or decline – without being coerced. There is a long history on this matter, beginning with the Nuremberg Trials. Additionally, Warnings and risks – especially with experimental genetic technology – must be taken into account. Lastly, such Vaccine Passports are totally unnecessary. A “vaccines for travel” policy is premised on the erroneous assumption that public health requires total vaccination of a population. Immunity is not even well understood with the virus, and not established yet for the vaccine. Under normal circumstances, so-called “herd immunity thresholds” can normally be reached through a mix of pre-existing, naturally acquired, & vaccine-based immunity. There is absolutely no need for universal vaccination – especially if many have already recovered. Based on the above stated facts, I ask that you please support, sponsor, and co-sponsor ANY legislation that would prevent vaccine passports. Thank you for your time and consideration.

What dystopian nightmare are we living in that it is suddenly ok for the U.S. government to help big tech determine where Americans can and cannot travel, shop, or congregate via a vaccine passport? Governor Edwards’ silence on the matter during a March 30th press conference speaks volumes. Republican governors across the country have taken every opportunity to make known how dangerous this concept is to individual liberty. To be clear, any private medical information that could be used against U.S. citizens to incentivize, monetize or in any way prevent travel, movement, or shopping options does not belong in the hands of the government as it is completely unconstitutional. Further, from December 14, 2020 through March 19, 2021 the US Government received 2,050 reports of death among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine. While these deaths may be considered completely coincidental and unrelated by those in charge of safety, no person should be coerced into undertaking even a perceived medical risk in exchange for living a normal life. Lastly, to say that only those who are vaccinated may travel and congregate implies that those who are not vaccinated are somehow infectious which is not true. Science does not support the illogical notion that healthy people can foster an epidemic. It is utterly unnecessary to limit the movement and the economy of healthy people. It is vitally important that as our voice in the legislature, that you oppose vaccine passports. They are an incredibly dangerous tech capability equal to China’s social credit system. They literally have no place in a free country.

We have seen our religious freedoms erode this past year. And now with talks of vaccine passports, we are getting dangerously close to returning to a time when those with different beliefs were segregated, discriminated against, and harmed. Our founders knew religious freedom was imperative, for in the very first Amendment to the Constitution they wrote: “Congress shall make no law… prohibiting the free exercise [of religion]”. Vaccine passports directly violate this. It is against many people’s firmly held beliefs to inject themselves with toxic chemicals; inject with animal blood or aborted fetal cells; or to potentially alter their genes —the Covid-19 vaccine is actually a gene therapy as recognized by the American Society of Gene + Cell Therapy. Please vote against anything allowing vaccine passports and work with others to pass legislation that would prohibit them in Louisiana.

Say no to vaccine passports! Any private medical information that could be used against citizens to incentivize, monetize or in any way prevent travel or movement does not belong in the hands of the government, much less in a “free” country. This is a very personal decision and needs to be left to the individual to decide for themselves whether or not they believe the risks outweigh the proposed benefits. Healthcare can never be one size fits all. Even penicillin, a life saving antibiotic to many, can kill those who are allergic. The right to decide what happens to our own body is paramount and unalienable. Forcing an injection into someone is rape by needle. Withholding goods and services from someone who declines a procedure is blackmail and servitude. Louisiana has no place for either. I implore you to be on the right side of history and do everything in your power to oppose vaccine passports while supporting legislation that would protect the citizens of Louisiana.

Studies have identified individuals who are at significant risk of adverse effects of Covid-19. The vast majority of the population are not at risk for severe outcomes of SARS-Cov-2 infection meaning vaccination for the general public is not necessary. A world in which the government and businesses closely monitor citizens’ healthcare choices and effectively ban healthy citizens from full social participation because they weigh the risks of a vaccine differently or decline a proposed course of treatment is unconstitutional, unethical, and unnecessary. I fully expect Governor Edwards to endorse these intrusive policies as he has ignored freedom and liberty for a year now. As your constituent, I am asking that you take every opportunity afforded you to oppose vaccine passports and protect individual rights.

Covid-19 vaccines are experimental, still in the middle of clinical trials, as they are issued under Emergency Use Authorization. As Federal law stipulates, products under EUA must be able to be refused without penalty. To withhold goods, services, and travel for not participating in a medical procedure is unethical and inhumane. Vaccine passports directly violate the Nuremberg Code - subjects undergoing medical procedures MUST be given informed consent. Informed consent is lost when under threat of loss of rights or access to goods and services. It is imperative that you oppose vaccine passports and see to it that they become prohibited in Louisiana. Give vaccine passports the BOOT!