Bodily Autonomy Activist Clarifies She Meant One Specific Body Part

A local activist has clarified that bodily autonomy is an important universal principle with surprisingly narrow zoning restrictions.

PORTLAND, OR — Local bodily autonomy activist Genevieve Ostrander, 34, held a brief press conference outside a community health fair Thursday to clarify that her long-standing position — “my body, my choice” — refers, specifically and exclusively, to one particular body part, and that all other bodily systems remain subject to recommended scheduling.

“People are conflating two completely separate principles,” Ostrander said, adjusting a tote bag that read MY BODY MY CHOICE on one side and I ❤️ SCIENCE on the other, an arrangement she described as “not a contradiction, just a layout issue.”

The clarification comes weeks after Ostrander’s friend and fellow activist Priya Chandrasekaran told reporters that your body is a temple, before adding, in the same breath, that the temple is due for its booster and open until 6 p.m. Wednesdays. Chandrasekaran did not respond to a request for comment, though she did respond to a request for her vaccination card, which she produced immediately and with visible pride.

Not far away, at a booth advertising raw honey and something called “immune tea,” a woman who gave her name only as Willow told this reporter that nature is healing, roughly two minutes before rolling up her sleeve for a flu shot, explaining that she was doing so “out of an abundance of caution regarding nature.”

Reached separately, local man Gary Pruitt confirmed he has been formally diagnosed with vaccine hesitancy by his physician, and has requested a second opinion from anyone not currently holding a needle.

“I just want an unbiased perspective,” Pruitt said, from a Facebook group where fourteen members with usernames like “TruthSeeker88” had already weighed in. He has not sought a third opinion, citing scheduling conflicts.

Ostrander, for her part, remains confident the science is settled, and notes it was equally settled four years ago, when it said something else, a consistency she attributes not to the science changing but to her own trust in it being, in her words, “load-bearing.” She has not spoken to Denny Faulkes, but if she did, associates say, she would probably ask him to keep his voice down.

This report cites zero peer-reviewed sources, several tote bags, and one Facebook group, in roughly equal proportion.

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