Pressure mounts on Indiana University as more lawmakers criticize COVID-19 vaccine requirement [View all]
State Senate Republicans are joining the chorus of elected officials calling on Indiana University to walk back its COVID-19 vaccine requirement.
“After 14 months of fighting and enduring the COVID-19 war, our state is finally returning to the path of normalcy,” the state’s Senate GOP caucus wrote in a letter addressed to IU President Michael McRobbie. “Regrettably, decision makers at Indiana University have veered away from that path.”
The letter said that lawmakers had “grave concerns” about the mandate of a vaccine that only has emergency-use authorization and that the “heavy-handed mandate goes against many of the liberties on which our founders built our democratic republic.”
University officials said Thursday evening that they were still reviewing the letter, but referred to a statement issued earlier in the day in response to an opinion issued by State Attorney General Todd Rokita, which also voiced opposition.
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