Indiana AG says university mandating vaccines violates new state law

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Indiana's Attorney General released a statement Wednesday condemning Indiana University's rule to mandate coronavirus vaccines for next semester and saying it violates a new state law.

"This session, members of the Indiana General Assembly passed legislation to codify in law a prohibition on COVID-19 vaccine passports, preventing public institutions from mandating proof of vaccination as a condition for receiving services or employment," Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) said.

"Indiana University's policy clearly runs afoul of state law-and the fundamental liberties and freedoms this legislation was designed to protect," Rokita added.

Indiana University announced last week that vaccinations would be required for all students and faculty.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/indiana-ag-says-university-mandating-vaccines-violates-new-state-law/ar-AAKq661

Why does the Indiana General Assembly want to kill its state's citizens?

[lapfog_1]

1. and yet I bet dollars to dognuts

that most of the school districts (public schools) require proof of standard childhood vaccines (polio, etc) to attend school...

[hlthe2b]

3. Of course and universities throughout the country require proof of MMR and meningitis vaccine

[MichMan]

7. Those have full FDA approval, correct?

[hlthe2b]

13. Given the IN law does not differentiate, this is weak tea excuse.

[MichMan]

15. The Federal government should require vaccination of ALL employees

as a condition of remaining employed.

Everytime I mention that, someone always responds that until it is fully approved by the FDA, that can't be done.

[Happy Hoosier]

11. My daughter attends IU

IU requires proof of other vaccinations as a condition of attendence.

[Klaralven]

19. Looks like Indiana provides exemptions on medical and religious grounds.

See https://www.in.gov/isbvi/files/Religious-Exemption_2.pdf

Any parent not wanting to vaccinate their child could use this form, since their objections are pretty much based on faith, rather than on science.

[hlthe2b]

2. Maybe parents will just have to send their money and their kids out of state, then.

I know I would.

[maxsolomon]

21. In state and out of state tuition are quite different.

IU is the best state school in IN. Bloomington is perhaps the only haven of Liberalism and Rational Thinking in IN.

This will go to court (where it may well lose). The law was passed to stick a finger in the eye of every Liberal in IN and nationwide. Legislating out of spite.

[hlthe2b]

24. LOLOL

Kids can defer admission, take a year off to earn $$ and establish residency in the state.

I'm really NOT meaning to be snarky, but did you not think that in-state tuition differential occurs everywhere and not just in Indiana? Sorry, but your comment took me aback a bit. That would be one fact that I'd be willing to bet money nearly all here know and probably have bemoaned in the past.

[maxsolomon]

26. No, I'm aware that in state and out of state are different in every state.

I was trying to say that pulling kids out of IU to send them out of state is not always an option.

Regardless, this is political chest-beating by the know-nothings in the IN legislature. It's theatre.

[dawg day]

4. Do you have a "vaccine passport?"

I don't. I have a card where someone scrawled the dates of my shots.

I don't think a law banning "passports" could mean that the university can't require students to be vaccinated. They aren't requiring a passport, after all.

IU already requires students to have the usual vaccines-- measles, etc.

[PortTack]

6. What you are talking about...the card with the scribbled dates..that is a vaccine passport

[CrackityJones75]

9. I don't believe there is any such thing.

There is nothing official about that card that I know of. Heck I know lots of people who didn’t even get them. Some look different than others. There is no notarized signature or seal of approval. And you can buy them on ebay and fill them out yourself.

[Arazi]

16. The yellow fever cards look the same and they're pretty universally accepted

Its just a card with a record of when you got the shot.

You can't enter multiple countries without that card. It looks very similar to the CDC card

[CrackityJones75]

29. interesting.

[dawg day]

14. No... a passport is govt granted.

The vaccine card is just a record. There aren't actual vax passports, so they banned something that doesn't exist.

[Arazi]

17. Have you seen the US version of the yellow fever vax "passport"?I It's very similar

And is universally accepted around the world as proof of vax

[sir pball]

20. I did, but I lost it a while back

I hadn't needed it since going to Africa in the 90s; it got misplaced in a move since then. No biggie, all those shots are long expired and I can just grab a new one on Amazon should I ever get more jabs.



https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KGH4VJ7/

[roamer65]

5. IN is that thing we hafta drive through to get to Chicago.

That’s how many Michiganders see that damn place.

[Happy Hoosier]

12. Easy there fella....

It is red.... I’ll grant you that, but there are pockets of blue. And, well, it’s home.

Sorry ‘bout Mike Pence though.

[maxsolomon]

22. And Greg Pence.

Politically, IN has it's head up its ass, and pretty much always has.

It's not alone; gerrymandered OH is right there, too.

[Happy Hoosier]

23. Sadly true.

But there are those of us here fighting the good fight. And it's a lovely place, at least in spots.

[maxsolomon]

27. I agree. I grew up camping in many of them.

Turkey Run & IN Dunes among them.

And my sister lives there, fighting the good fight in Madison Co.

[roamer65]

28. At least Hammond and Gary are blue.

They feel more like Illinois, than Indiana.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

25. America's truck stop.

Luckily it’s not that long through to our place in Michigan.

My partner freaks out when we have edibles in the car.

[spanone]

8. GQP is the enemy of the people. Plain & Simple.

[ananda]

10. Because that's who Reeps are.. death cultists.

They enjoy power over others, especially so-called
liberal bastions... and they want liberals to suffer
and die and don't care about collateral damage.

[BlueIdaho]

18. See you in court...

This “new” law is worth challenging.