What 'General Hospital' Star Ingo Rademacher Has Said About Suing ABC Over Vaccine Mandate

General Hospital star Ingo Rademacher is in the midst of suing ABC over their COVID-19 vaccination mandate.

The actor announced he was leaving the soap opera in November, later sharing that he was filing a lawsuit against the channel for discrimination.

ABC has made it a requirement for all cast and crew, on all shows, to have the COVID-19 vaccine, something which Rademacher has claimed is religious discrimination and unconstitutional.

Here's what the actor has said about the lawsuit so far.

Why Ingo Rademacher is suing ABC

On Monday, December 14 Rademacher filed a lawsuit against ABC to Los Angeles Superior Court.

It showed Rademacher sent an email to ABC's parent company Disney's HR department in October over the vaccination mandate, citing religious exemption for why he hadn't had the vaccine.

He said: "I am entitled to a religious exemption against mandatory vaccination for COVID-19 on the basis of my deeply and sincerely held moral belief that my body is endowed by my creator with natural processes to protect me and that its natural integrity cannot ethically be violated by the administration of artificially created copies of genetic material, foreign to nature and experimental."

Variety reported that ABC rejected Rademacher's claim of religious exemption from having the vaccine, and his lawsuit stated that after the rejection he was asked to have an interview with a HR lawyer which he claimed was a "cross-examination."

What Ingo Rademacher has said about suing ABC over their COVID Vaccine mandate

Rademacher appeared on Fox's "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Wednesday, December 15 to discuss suing ABC, in which he detailed his religious beliefs and how his parents, who live in Germany, use homeopathy and other remedies to counter illness.

He told Carlson: "To me, it's staying healthy and dying healthy as well. Being injected with something like this COVID vaccine—personally, I don't think I need it, and I think I should be able to make that choice."

The actor claimed that the Pfizer, Moderna and Janssen/Johnson & Johnson vaccines went against this belief.

Rademacher added: "If we don't choose what to put in our bodies, we don't own our body. The government owns you. It's so frustrating."

The actor, who has appeared as Jasper "Jax" Jacks on the soap on and off since 1996 is not the only actor to leave the soap over the mandate, as Steve Burton was let go from his role of Jason Morgan over it.

On November 23, Burton said in an Instagram video: "I know there's been a lot of rumours and speculation about me and General Hospital, and I wanted you to hear it from me personally. Unfortunately, General Hospital has let me go because of the vaccine mandate."