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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

MEDICAL FREEDOM’S ‘TEXAS SIZED’ WIN!

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Founder and Executive Director OF Texans for Medical Freedom, Jackie Shlegel, joins Del to share the monumental legal win this week in Texas and how she played an integral part in helping get SB7 passed, which protects private employees from being mandated to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Jackie details how she worked closely with Texas Governor Greg Abbott to pass this historic legislation.

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These are amazing times and we keep celebrating here on the high wire all of the different

0:05.9

wins all the movement we're starting to see in the world the conversations that are

0:10.6

changing many of them are changing because the work that we're doing here that you're sharing the message

0:16.1

is also warrior mothers all across this country that have built a movement that seems almost unstoppable headlines talking about it all the time.

0:25.6

There's winning and then there's winning.

0:28.8

And when I'm talking about winning, take a look at this.

0:32.0

Governor Abbott signing a bill into law to ban private employers from having COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

0:38.0

Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 7 into law today.

0:41.0

Senate Bill 7 will ban private employers

0:44.6

from requiring their workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

0:48.6

Private employers who require employees

0:51.0

to get a COVID vaccine or take adverse action against an

0:54.3

unvaccinated employee could face a $50,000 fine. The Republican governor has long

1:00.2

taken a stance against vaccine requirements.

1:03.2

SB 7 is now law in the state of Texas.

1:06.5

It's long past time to put COVID behind us and restore individual freedom to all Texas.

1:15.4

Texas is not the first state to create some sort of ban on workplace vaccine

1:20.1

mandates and the state already prohibits governments from

1:24.0

requiring COVID vaccinations.

1:26.1

SB 7 becomes law more than two years after Houston Methodist Hospital ousted

1:31.0

150 employees for refusing to get vaccinated for the

1:35.0

coronavirus. The new law does not exempt hospitals and health care

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