Bodily Autonomy Guarantee Bill
This legislation was among the most important of the 2022 Session. It would have codified the core constitutional guarantee that every Louisiana citizen enjoys bodily autonomy and has the fundamental right to make his/her own health care decisions, including the right whether to be vaccinated. The Bill prohibits the government from interfering in, or discriminating against, the exercise of this right. The Bill also included an important penalty provision. The Bill was inexplicably killed in the House Health and Welfare Committee by a vote of 11-5. Republican Chairman Larry Bagley (Caddo, Desoto, and Sabine Parishes) along with Republican Representatives Thomas Pressley (Bossier and Caddo Parishes) Christopher Turner (Lincoln and Union Parishes) and Wayne McMahen (Bossier and Webster Parishes) all voted against this vital legislation, supported by a substantial majority of Louisiana voters. If these named Republicans had supported the Bill, it would have passed out of Committee in a 9-7 vote and moved to the full House. After the history of government abuse, coercion and misinformation associated with the Covid vaccine, the government’s ongoing effort to destroy individual liberty, and the increasing evidence of severe adverse effects from the vaccine, it is reprehensible that these Republicans killed this Bill. Every voter in their respective Districts should be made aware of this. They have the right to know this when they cast their next vote.
