Houston-based Dr. Mary Talley Bowden recently shared in an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast that Texans need robust medical freedom protections in the face of the state’s massive medical industry.
In the episode released Tuesday, Bowden told Rogan that since Texas is home to the Texas Medical Center—the largest medical center in the world and a magnet for people across the globe—lawmakers must take a proactive stance in securing citizens’ freedoms in the face of the medical-industrial complex.
Bowden said she thinks vaccine mandates started in Texas for a specific reason.
“I think they did it here to test the waters,” said Bowden. “They knew if they could get away with it in Texas, they could get away with it anywhere.”
Michelle Evans, political director for Texans for Vaccine Choice, told Texas Scorecard that piecemeal legislation has been introduced in the Texas Legislature over the last couple of sessions, including a couple of exhaustive ones to tackle these issues.
“99% of Texas employers do not mandate any vaccines as a condition of employment,” said Evans. “The most common exception is healthcare facilities, which ‘may’ accept exemptions.”
There was a measure, Senate Bill 407, introduced by State Sen. Mayes Middleton (R–Galveston), that would have changed the ‘may’ to ‘shall’ in the case of healthcare facilities exemptions. The measure died in the House.
Evans added that K-12 institutions, as well as both private and public colleges and universities, are technically not able to deny an exemption.
While Texas has made strides in securing medical freedom protections, Bowden expressed worry at the divide in the House between “true, freedom-loving representatives” and “pseudo-Republicans” who she said are “basically Democrats in disguise.”
For example, Senate Bill 95, which would have required written informed consent for childhood immunizations in Texas, mandated detailed disclosure of vaccine risks and ingredients, prohibited financial incentives from vaccine manufacturers to providers, and imposed civil and administrative penalties for violations, died in the Texas House.
Bowden praised Idaho’s passage of a measure eliminating all COVID-19 medical mandates, except those in hospitals.
“It’s the first one of its kind where medical mandates are finally outlawed,” continued Bowden.
While initially skeptical of the COVID-19 vaccine because they were “rushed to the market,” Bowden told Rogan, “I didn’t think the shots would work, necessarily, but I trusted them. I didn’t think they were going to hurt us.”
Now, she says the vaccines “should have been yanked off [the market] in the first month.”
Her experiences during the pandemic with the vaccine mandates have inspired her stance against medical mandates.
Bowden, who became nationally known following her revolutionary treatment of COVID-19, is currently battling complaints from hospitals alleging unprofessional conduct and violations of the standard of care after she attempted to prescribe and administer ivermectin to a patient.
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