Bodily Autonomy is Within Your Grasp:
How Ohio health workers are trying to take back their right to refuse from the public-private infrastructure.
Bodily Autonomy is on everyone’s lips these days. After the Supreme Court recently put the fate of abortion into the hands of the states, people across the nation are screaming for their own bodily autonomy to be returned to them. Ironically, for the last two years, half of the nation has already been attempting to champion this cause after being threatened by their employers and government leaders. In many cases, those individuals screaming for a return of Roe v Wade were the same ones shouting down others for refusing an experimental medical intervention with no long-term safety data.
When local politicians in the Heartland tried and failed to pass a bill which could guarantee some semblance of individual medical freedom for citizens, a small group of local medical workers, led by Diana Smith, took the initiative to stand up to the bureaucratic system and attempt to give the people of Ohio the option to say for themselves if the government should decide what goes into their bodies.
“A friend and I were taking Constitution classes and when the lockdowns were coming from the schools, my friends were fighting their school boards on behalf of their children,” Smith said. “I kept asking myself, ‘what can we the people do?’ I knew about House Bill 248 and knew it was stuck in Committee and not going anywhere so I looked up my friend and called her up. She said ‘You need to do this,’ and you know you can’t complain if you don’t do it.”
According to Smith, she meticulously sifted through the Ohio Attorney Generals website looking through other past amendments to the Ohio Constitution and began modeling her own petition to match those that were previously successful. Smith formed a loose coalition of like-minded people from various medical freedom movements throughout the state, including other doctors, nurses and more and had her initiative reviewed by several lawyers before submitting it to the Ohio Attorney General. Her concern was simple and her request straightforward: no employer nor state representative should have the right to threaten your livelihood over your medical status.
“I’m full childhood vaccinated minus my flu shot,” Smith said. “I do believe that we live in a free nation and people should be able to maintain a livelihood and raise their families without being threatened for their medical choices and they shouldn’t be discriminated against.”
Smith’s opinion echoes that of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization doctrine on bioethics. The document, signed after the Second World War, clearly outlines the nature of informed consent in terms of bioethics and medical interventions.
“Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice,” the document says.
As many now know, informed consent demands that patients or participants be made aware in clear and concise ways the risks and nature of medical interventions. As scientific studies have already shown, informed consent on the recent mRNA injections was completely ignored.
According to Smith, this amendment isn’t just about refusing the mRNA injections. Rather, the amendment is about protecting people’s right to choose no matter their circumstances.
“There are people in need of organ transplants and the doctors won’t do it because they didn’t get the vaccine,” Smith said. “If we let business mandate medical interventions who is to say they can’t force you to take birth control or some other medical intervention? We are opening a door to allow business and government to dictate what we can and can’t do with our own bodies.”
The language contained in the amendment is relatively simple and straightforward. The current amendment would contain three sections that read as follows:
(A) An individual’s right to refuse any medical procedure, treatment, injection, vaccine, prophylactic, pharmaceutical, or medical device shall be absolute.
(B) No law, rule, regulation, person, employer, entity, or healthcare provider shall require, mandate, or coerce any person to receive or use a medical procedure, treatment, injection, vaccine, prophylactic, pharmaceutical, or medical device nor shall they discriminate against the individual who exercises this right.
(C) No other provision of the Ohio Constitution shall impair or limit the rights contained herein.
After attaining over 1500 signatures, Smith and her coalition were able to submit the amendment initiative to the Ohio Attorney General. Now that is has been approved, Smith and company will need to secure an additional 500,000 signatures in order to get the amendment on the ballot for the people of Ohio to vote on. It is a Herculean task that is being undertaken by a small group of passionate people dedicated to protecting the rights of all Ohioans, regardless of whether or not they took the injections.
“Not every approach is one size fits all,” Smith said. “Every individual reacts differently. We can give every patient the same procedure and have some experience no issues at all and another patient who is dying in pain.”
True bodily autonomy is facing an uphill battle in the state of Ohio. Despite the ballot measure slipping in under most radars, it is clear it has shaken some within the establishment, triggering many local news affiliates to publish hit pieces painting the issue in the usual binary of “Vaxers” and “Antivaxers.” Smith is determined to see this cause through and let the people of the heartland decide for themselves the course of their future.
Those interested in joining in the fight to take back their rights can head to the Medical Freedom Amendment website at https://www.medicalright2refuse.com. From there, you can learn how to print off your own signature collection packet and start collecting signatures to help get the issue of bodily autonomy on the ballot in 2023.
For more information on the dangers, risks and data surrounding the two most popular mRNA injections on the market, check out The Heartland Beat’s coverage of “The Jabby Elephant in the Room.” For more information on the deleterious health effects of mask wearing and a breakdown of their complete lack of efficacy, check out our coverage here.
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