The President of the United States has struck a match in a tinder forest of vaccine controversy and human rights.  On September 9, President Biden issued an executive order requiring federal employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccine without the opt out of testing.  He also unveiled a lengthy 6-point White House COVID plan on vaccine mandates, masking requirements, and incentivization programs. 

Within the first plan point “Vaccinate the Unvaccinated”, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is developing a rule that will require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work. This requirement will impact over 80 million workers in private sector businesses with 100+ employees.  Also within that plan point there are requirements that teachers and staff at Head Start and Early Head Start programs, teachers and child and youth program personnel at the Department of Defense (DOD), and teachers and staff at Bureau of Indian Education-operated schools get vaccinated.  These are just two examples within the plan and the extensiveness and overreach of the plan is legally unprecedented.

States, not the federal government, have responsibility to protect the fundamental rights of their citizens under their state Constitutions.  Our country was designed as a federation of states to prevent this exact type of federal abuse of power that the President is attempting.  The federal executive branch of government has no authority to mandate a violation of a person’s inalienable right to bodily autonomy.  Emergencies or no emergencies, federal and state governments cannot force medical procedures on to the public.  Using OSHA as a work around to force a White House agenda on people’s lives will not stand constitutional scrutiny.  Human and constitutional rights to bodily integrity are blatantly violated by the White House’s Executive Order and Covid Plan.  

According to news reports, 19 state governors and two state attorney generals have vowed to resist the mandates. State governors opposing the orders hail from Arizona, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming. The AGs are Sean Reyes of Utah and Todd Rokita from Indiana. Taking to Twitter, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp wrote, “I will pursue every legal option available to the state of Georgia to stop this blatantly unlawful overreach by the Biden administration.” For his part, Biden claims, “this is not about freedom” and that in the context of forcing school kids to be vaccinated, “If these governors won’t help us beat the pandemic, I’ll use my power as president to get them out of the way.”

The health freedom movement is up in arms, and thankfully millions of citizens and state officials will fight back.  The American people must rise up strong and resist these unconstitutional mandates.  This is an urgent moment for our country and for health freedom in the USA and around the world.

Take Action to let your government leaders know that the Ex Orders and Covid Plan are unconstitutional attacks on freedom. Now is the time to recommit ourselves to fighting for health freedom.