Posted on 01/28/2023 6:28:01 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
California’s controversial COVID-19 misinformation law, which bars doctors from providing “misinformation” or “disinformation” related to COVID-19, is an unprecedented effort by those in power to block doctors from sharing their views on COVID-19 topics, including on vaccines, with their patients, an attorney says. And lawmakers had pivoted the initial bill from its true, intended purpose to be able to pass it.
That’s according to Rick Jaffe, an attorney who represents a lawsuit challenging the measure, AB 2098 (pdf), also referred to colloquially as the state’s COVID-19 misinformation law, which became effective on Jan. 1 but has since been put on hold.
A judge granted a preliminary injunction (pdf) late Wednesday, temporarily blocking the law from being enforced pending further litigation in two lawsuits. Jaffe is involved in one of the cases—Hoang v. Bonta. The other case is Hoeg v. Newsom. Both had argued, in part, that AB 2098 is unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
“This is the first effort to suppress health care practitioners from telling patients what the doctors think,” Jaffe said of the COVID-19 misinformation law in a recent interview with EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program.
“If they get away with this, it’s not going to be the last time they do this … That’s what we’re battling against,” he added, noting that such impunity could result in similar speech-suppression efforts “for the next pandemic...”
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Everything is easy to say. Words have meaning. An oath has meaning. If the health and very lives of your patients is subordinated to your own personal comfort. Your own economic security or ANYTHING really then guy are useless and pointless. Now consider all of the oaths in American life taken by the various operators and tell me they should be tossed if the operators are personally scared or worried about something. Doctors used to be proud of that oath…
“We are the government.”
“We will silence all dissent.”
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