Charleston, WV (Wowk) – The legislative session in West Virginia is already heating up under the dome with more than a week.
The winter weather on Wednesday canceled several sessions of the afternoon committee and postponed a vote on another law, but the senators still had work in the upper chamber.
“It seems that we have a lot of extremist laws from the goal instead of things that affect people’s paperbacks,” said Senator Joey Garcia, deputy minority leader from Marion County. “See how this legislator appears.”
The Senate did not vote on Bill 460, which creates religious and moral exceptions for the state’s vaccination requirements for school children.
The minority leader Mike Woelel offered a change that would make the polio vaccine the only mandatory vaccine, but this was rejected by the full body.
“I was very frustrated that we couldn’t even keep the polio vaccine,” said Woelel. “Polio is a demon and its consequences are tragic for children.”
“Each of us can say that we don’t want a certain disease to come back, but we still violate the religious beliefs of children” against this vaccine we should not force you to take it. “
One topic that is not discussed in this session is Senate Bill 51. Majority of the whip Jay Taylor has withdrawn the draft law that would eliminate the rape and incidental exceptions to the state’s abortion law after it had received a setback from many West virginians .
“There were many threats for my wife and daughter. It was a little annoying, “said Taylor.” The intention of the law was to protect babies. Nobody spoke about babies. All contributions spoke about the other mistakes. Two mistakes do not make a right. My intention was always to protect babies. “
However, Taylor admits that the invoice currently does not have enough support. He also apologized to everyone who has insulted the bill in need or offended.
Another draft law relating to disagreement concerns the ban on the transitional care of the gender to people under the age of 18.
“You have to be 18 to choose, own a firearm and serve the military” This type of decision changes your body permanently forever. “
“If this currently works for a number of different children, it is not for me to decide what the medical standard is,” said Garcia.
On the other side of the Senate’s hall, House Resolution 6 tries to go one step further and to recognize only two biological genders and to classify gender dysphoria as a mental illness.
