Rep. Norine Hammond (R-Macomb) | norinehammond.org
Rep. Norine Hammond (R-Macomb) | norinehammond.org
State Rep. Norine Hammond (R-Macomb) is fighting to keep the Health Care Right to Conscience Act in place and doing the critical job she feels it was designed to do.
“I firmly believe that the COVID-19 virus is real,” Hammond said on the House floor during a recent debate on amending the Health Care Right of Conscience Act. “For myself, personally I am fully vaccinated. I will also get a booster shot when it's the appropriate time, but that is my choice. Many of my constituents do not share my belief and I respect them for that. We talk about misinformation, this is not misinformation. Let's give people credit for having individual rights and deciding what they think is right for their body. This is not how this act was intended.”
The Health Care Right to Conscience Act establishes that health care workers cannot be penalized for refusing to perform procedures they have a conscientious objection to. The amendment makes it easier for employers to enforce COVID mandates after people used the original act to refuse mandate compliance.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed off on the bill that is set to take effect on July 1, 2022 in early November after it passed both chambers in Springfield largely along partisan lines.
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