Two Idaho legislators introduce legislation to criminalize the issuance of certain COVID-19 vaccines.

A pair of Republican lawmakers in the Idaho legislature have introduced a bill that would make it a crime to introduce mRNA vaccines statewide.

Introduced by State Senator Tammy Nichols and Rep. Judy Boyle, House Bill 154 would allow those who administer mRNA vaccines, such as the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, to be charged with a misdemeanor in Idaho.

“Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, a person may not provide or administer a vaccine developed using informational ribonucleic acid technology for use in a human or any other mammal in this state,” the bill says. “A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.”

Nichols discussed the proposed bill in the House Health and Welfare Committee on Wednesday.

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The Idaho State Capitol building on May 23, 2021 in Boise, Idaho. (Aaron P./Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

“We are seeing more and more concern about the mRNA vaccine,” Nichols told the committee. “We have issues with it being expedited, there is no accountability, no access to data, no risk benefit analysis done, no informed consent.”

“There are other options if people want to get a vaccine that works against COVID,” she added. “So I think there needs to be a lot of discussion about this, I think there’s a lot of information that keeps coming in about blood clot problems and heart problems, and correlation and causation needs to be looked at.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website states that reports of heart disease following the COVID-19 vaccine are rare, and the benefits (such as preventing cases of COVID-19 and its severe outcomes) have been found to outweigh the risks of myocarditis. and pericarditis after receiving mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.”

In pushing the bill, Nichols said the mRNA vaccines being introduced in the state should be treated “in a similar way” to drugs some residents use that later turned out to be harmful.

In pushing the bill, Nichols said the state makes decisions about drugs that could be harmful to Idahoans and suggested that the vaccine should be approached “in a similar way.”

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State Rep. Ilana Rubel, a Democrat, pushed for Nichols’ implementation of the measure and asked about her comments related to the accelerated release of vaccines that have been approved by the FDA.

“I understand that these vaccines were initially expedited, but my understanding is that they were eventually approved through the normal approval process and ended up, you know, passed the test by passing all the usual tests…am I wrong? on that?” Rubel asked.

“That’s also a concern,” Nichols replied. “I see conflicting reports on this. So actually they send me more information to solve this particular problem, because I found that it could not be done the way we thought it should be done. or that it was usually done for the approval process as an FDA-approved vaccine.”

A pharmacist prepares to give a COVID-19 booster shot on September 9, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

mRNA vaccines, according to the National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus, work by “injecting a piece of mRNA that matches the viral protein, usually a small piece of protein found on the outer membrane of the virus.”

There are currently three main types of coronavirus vaccines, including mRNA, viral vector, and protein subunit, according to the CDC.

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The COVID-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna fall into the mRNA category, according to the CDC, and “use lab-created mRNA to teach our cells to make a protein, or even just a fragment of a protein, that triggers an immune response within our body.”

This immune response that produces antibodies is what “helps protect us from getting sick with this microbe in the future,” according to the CDC website.