by Megan Redshaw at The Defender
A Texas hospital was reportedly hit with a lawsuit Friday by 117 employees who claim their employer is turning them into COVID-19 vaccine “guinea pigs.”
The plaintiffs, employees of Houston Methodist, allege the hospital is breaking the law by requiring shots as a condition of employment, forcing employees to “subject themselves to medical experimentation as a prerequisite to feeding their families.” They are requesting a temporary injunction to prevent the hospital from terminating the employment of those who refuse to get the shot.
Houston Methodist is a network that oversees eight hospitals and has more than 26,000 employees. Hospital CEO Dr. Marc Boom sent a letter to employees in April saying they would have to be vaccinated by June 7, or risk suspension and termination of employment, according to The Washington Post.
The complaint, filed in state court, says Houston Methodist’s vaccine mandate violates the Nuremberg Code of 1947, which bans forced medical experiments and mandates voluntary consent. The code was created after World War II in response to the medical atrocities Nazis committed against prisoners in concentration camps.
Attorney Jared Woodfill, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of the 117 hospital staffers, told ABC News Houston Methodist is forcing employees to get the shot to boost the hospital’s profits and this “is a severe and blatant violation of the Nuremberg Code and the public policy of the state of Texas.”
“Methodist Hospital is forcing its employees to be human ‘guinea pigs’ as a condition for continued employment,” the complaint states. The complaint characterizes COVID vaccines as an “experimental COVID-19 mRNA gene modification injection.”
Lead plaintiff Jennifer Bridges said even though she has taken “every vaccine known to man,” she fears the COVID vaccine’s safety is unproven…
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