The Montana House of Representatives rejected a bill to ban the use of mRNA ‘vaccines’ within the state.

The GOP-led chamber voted down the legislation 66-34.

Flathead Beacon reports:

The state House of Representatives on Wednesday afternoon voted down a bill that would have banned the use of mRNA vaccines in Montana.

Sponsored by Greg Kmetz, R-Miles City, House Bill 371 would have prohibited COVID-19 vaccines and boosters by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, the only mRNA vaccines currently approved by the Federal Drug and Administration (FDA), while placing a moratorium on further research into mRNA vaccines for other diseases.

The bill went down with 66 representatives voting against and 34 in favor. Local representatives who opposed the measure included Rep. Amy Regier, R-Kalispell; Rep. Terry Falk, R-Kalispell; Rep. Courtenay Sprunger, R-Kalispell; Rep. Lyn Bennett, R-Columbia Falls; Rep. Debo Powers, D-Whitefish; and Rep. Tracy Sharp, R-Polson; however, both Regier and Sharp supported the measure during its original passage out of the House Judiciary Committee.

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“Sadly, 40% of Republicans joined with every Dem to vote this down on the floor yesterday. We need to make banning mRNA a litmus test in primaries,” The Blaze Senior Editor Daniel Horowitz commented.

From the Daily Montanan:

Kmetz said he became politically active during the pandemic, starting when then-Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat, ordered non-essential businesses to temporarily close down. He said his wife lost her job in the healthcare field for not getting vaccinated, and a friend’s grandson was hospitalized for one of the rare side effects attributed to the COVID-19 vaccines.

“If an individual is told a product will prevent them from getting sick, and yet the actual outcome of taking the product does not result in that effect, then the product is a scam,” Kmetz said. “Another thing that really bothers me is all vaccine manufacturers are 100% free from all liability … We are talking about a real bad product, and people have absolutely no recourse for damage.”

Rep. Brian Close, D-Bozeman, gave his own story in opposition to the bill. Close said he has an autoimmune disease, and diabetes, and if he got COVID-19, he would be at high risk for ending up on a ventilator or dying.

“Every six months I get my COVID booster so I can stand here and serve my constituents and my family,” Close said. “There’s thousands of people in Montana with compromised immune systems or who can’t afford to travel out of state to get a COVID vaccine.”

Rep. Melody Cunningham, a Missoula Democrat, shared her experience working in hospitals and hospice care during the pandemic and the “tsunami of death” she witnessed before a vaccine was available to the public. She also criticized criminalizing what is a life-saving treatment, and removing individual freedom for healthcare officials and individuals to make their own informed decisions.

Additional proponents to the bill claimed the COVID-19 vaccines had led to many fatalities and increases in other conditions such as cancer and myocarditis, many using personal anecdotes to illustrate their points.

 

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