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Hundreds testify in support of bills to protect bodily autonomy after COVID-era mandates
Summary
Citizens, health professionals and advocates urged the Judiciary Committee to pass bills protecting medical decision‑making and banning coercive mandates, citing COVID-era employment and education mandates that led to firings, lost educational opportunities and reported injuries.
Dozens of witnesses, including health professionals, parents and workers, told the Joint Committee on the Judiciary to pass bills that would enshrine protections for individual medical decision‑making and ban coercive mandates and incentives tied to medical interventions.
Why it matters: Supporters characterized the measures as safeguards for informed consent, arguing that employment and school mandates during the COVID pandemic coerced many people into medical interventions or caused job and education loss for those who refused.
Multiple witnesses recounted personal harm tied to mandates. Anne Marie Cromwick described workplace measures after the COVID…
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