On Oct. 7, 2020, during a hastily scheduled virtual meeting, four
District of Columbia Council members making up the Health Committee
amended and unanimously passed a minor consent bill, B23-0171.3
The bill would not only permit children aged 11 years and older to give
consent for doctors and other vaccine administrators to give them
vaccines without their parents’ knowledge or consent, but would also
require insurance companies, vaccine administrators and schools to
conceal from parents that the child has been vaccinated.
On Oct. 20, 2020,4 the entire DC Council voted in favor of the bill
12:15 on the first reading in yet another virtual online meeting with no
public testimony. It was announced that the second reading, which will
be the final vote, will take place on Nov. 10, 2020.
In a revealing statement Vincent C. Gray (D-Ward 7), the chair of the DC
Health Committee which passed the bill, explained why the bill was all
suddenly being revived and pushed through so quickly. Gray was quoted in
The Washington Post as saying, “the hope of an imminent coronavirus
vaccine gave the bill new urgency.”
Primary sponsor of this bill, DC Council Member Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3),
emphasized that coronavirus vaccines were her the main reason why she
wants to remove parents from the process of vaccinating children.
On Oct. 7, 2020, during a hastily scheduled virtual meeting, four
District of Columbia Council members making up the Health Committee
amended and unanimously passed a minor consent bill, B23-0171.3
The bill would not only permit children aged 11 years and older to give
consent for doctors and other vaccine administrators to give them
vaccines without their parents’ knowledge or consent, but would also
require insurance companies, vaccine administrators and schools to
conceal from parents that the child has been vaccinated.
On Oct. 20, 2020,4 the entire DC Council voted in favor of the bill
12:15 on the first reading in yet another virtual online meeting with no
public testimony. It was announced that the second reading, which will
be the final vote, will take place on Nov. 10, 2020.
In a revealing statement Vincent C. Gray (D-Ward 7), the chair of the DC
Health Committee which passed the bill, explained why the bill was all
suddenly being revived and pushed through so quickly. Gray was quoted in
The Washington Post as saying, “the hope of an imminent coronavirus
vaccine gave the bill new urgency.”
Primary sponsor of this bill, DC Council Member Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3),
emphasized that coronavirus vaccines were her the main reason why she
wants to remove parents from the process of vaccinating children.