Actor Matthew McConaughey is speaking out against vaccine mandates for children.
“I couldn’t mandate having to vaccinate the younger kids. I still want to find out more information,” McConaughey said Tuesday, after being asked about his stance on mandates at The New York Times‘s DealBook summit. “I’m vaccinated. My wife’s vaccinated. I didn’t do it because someone told me I had to — [I] chose to do it.”
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“Do I think that there’s any kind of scam or conspiracy theory? Hell no,” he added, according to The Hill. “We all got to get off that narrative. There’s not a conspiracy theory on the vaccines.”
The Food and Drug Administration approved emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine on children 5-11 years old last week, after which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave it a final greenlight.
McConaughey explained that while he does not oppose vaccines, he is choosing not to vaccinate his children for the time being.
“Right now I’m not vaccinating mine, I’ll tell you that,” McConaughey said.
McConaughey and his wife, Camila Alves, have three children together.
The actor, who has suggested he may run a campaign for Texas governor, added that he and his family have relied heavily on frequent COVID-19 testing since the beginning of the pandemic.
“I’m in a position, though, where I can do that, and I understand that not everyone can do that,” he said.
During the event, McConaughey also gave his opinion about a Texas law banning abortions after six weeks of gestation.
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“It doesn’t doesn’t seem to open up the room for a sensible choice to be made at the right time,” he said. “I believe in this: more responsibility, more personal responsibility to make the right choices. And we got to pick context with each situation and each person’s situation — each woman’s situation.”
