The ethics of informed medical consent includes the right of individuals to  accept or to decline a pharmaceutical product or medical intervention.  This right has been universally affirmed as a human right by ethicists, medical societies, Virginia regulation, institutional patient bills of rights, and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 

·         Phase III clinical trials for the available COVID-19 shots will not be completed until April 6, 2023 (Pfizer/BioNTech), February 14, 2023 (Moderna) and January 3, 2023 (Johnson and Johnson). 

·         These are new pharmaceutical products and there are no animal studies or long term safety profiles.  Specifically, it is not known whether these experimental products may cause autoimmune disease, allergy, cancer, reproductive harm, or cardiac, vascular or neurodevelopmental disorders.

Finally, I have known quite a few young women who have recently died of heart issues. This needs to stop.

In June, 2021, the CDC reported a “likely association” between injection with the mRNA COVID-19 shot and heart inflammation.  The FDA subsequently required that a warning about myocarditis and pericarditis be added to the manufacturer’s insert.  Myocarditis and pericarditis are inflammatory conditions that can lead to cardiac arrhythmia and death.  Individuals have the right to decide whether the risks associated with this pharmaceutical product are ones they are willing to accept for themselves or their child(ren).