The lower court blocked the mandate in ten states, including Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. A federal judge from Louisiana enjoined the mandate nationwide in a separate ruling in November.
The Biden administration is attempting to use the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to force vaccination on medical professionals who work at facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid. If the administration gets its way, all medical doctors at these locations would have to either take a COVID-19 vaccine or lose their jobs. This is especially problematic for pro-life doctors who object to the currently available vaccines. All currently available vaccines utilized cell lines harvested from aborted children during research and/or production.
The ruling from US District Judge Matthew T. Schlep blocked the Biden mandate, calling it “likely an unlawful promulgation of regulations.” In his ruling, Schlep wrote:
“CMS seeks to overtake an area of traditional state authority by imposing an unprecedented demand to federally dictate the private medical decisions of millions of Americans. Such action challenges traditional notions of federalism. Congress did not clearly authorize CMS to enact... this politically and economically vast, federalism-altering, and boundary-pushing mandate, which Supreme Court precedent requires.”
