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Children of God for Life, Inc.
March 4, 2026
WISCONSIN, March 4, 2026 /Christian Newswire/ — Children of God for Life, a global Catholic‑aligned organization dedicated to ethical medical practices and the defense of life, welcomes the advancement of Florida Senate Bill 1756, which has passed committee and now moves to a full Senate vote.
For more than two decades, Children of God for Life has accompanied Catholic families striving to live faithfully amid complex medical and public policy immunization requirements. The organization has long supported parental rights, informed consent, and moral decision‑making guided by a well‑formed conscience.
Under current Florida law, school immunization exemptions are limited to medical and religious categories. However, some Catholic families object to certain vaccines on grounds of conscience, rooted in Catholic moral doctrine—particularly concerns regarding the use of aborted fetal cell lines. Because Church teaching permits vaccine use under limited circumstances, such objections are not always recognized as strictly “religious,” leaving faithful families without adequate protection.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that “man is obliged to follow faithfully what he knows to be just and right” and that conscience is “man’s most secret core and his sanctuary, where he is alone with God” (CCC 1776–1778). Likewise, the Second Vatican Council affirmed in Dignitatis Humanae that no one should be compelled by civil authority to act against his conscience in religious matters.
Senate Bill 1756, known as the Medical Freedom Act and sponsored by Sen. Clay Yarborough (R‑Jacksonville), seeks to address this gap by explicitly recognizing conscience‑based exemptions, alongside existing medical and religious exemptions. The bill does not ban vaccines or undermine public health. Rather, it reflects the Church’s consistent teaching that moral responsibility cannot be separated from freedom of conscience.
The protection of religious conscience and freedom by civil law is of paramount importance. For if the right of conscience loses its significance as a fundamental religious right for members of the Church, we risk losing the same protection we fight to maintain in our Catholic Health plans, medical facilities and other civil disputes involving the sanctity of human life.
Children of God for Life encourages Catholics in Florida to prayerfully reflect on this issue and to respectfully urge their senators to support SB 1756, in defense of the inviolability of conscience, parental authority, and religious liberty. Likewise, please call members of the Florida house of representatives and urge them to take up this very important bill.
Contact: info@cogforlife.org | 833‑543‑7346 | www.cogforlife.org
FOR FURTHER READING TO UNDERSTAND THE DOCTRINAL ASPECT OF THE PRIMACY OF CONSCIENCE SEE OUR ARTICLE: Religious Conscience & Aborted Fetal Vaccines – Children of God for Life