Minnesota Legislators Call a Spade a Spade

Pushback of the Week, April 27, 2025

Minnesota Legislators Call a Spade a Spade

Republican legislators have just fired a dramatic “shot across the bow” in the Minnesota House, introducing a bill—the mRNA Bioweapons Prohibition Act (HF 3219)—that would prohibit and criminalize all mRNA injections and products, designating them as weapons of mass destruction.

Defining mRNA injections and products as Covid injections, other injections or products containing mRNA or “modified” mRNA, “any human gene therapy product for any infectious disease indication,” and “nanotechnology or nanoparticles that alter genes and create a biosynthetic cell replication,” the bill states,

“Whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily accessible to another mRNA injections and products is guilty of a crime.”

Rep. Walter Hudson, one of the bill’s eight sponsors and the Assistant GOP Floor Leader, acknowledged that the bill would likely require “significant amendment” to become law but expressed his hope that the “bold opening position” would lead to “productive conversation” and a “reasonable legislative response.”

The language for the first-in-nation legislation came from a model bill originally developed by Dr. Joseph Sansone, a Florida-based professional who describes himself (with a nod to Ron Paul) as a “psychotherapist opposed to psychopathic authoritarianism.” Sansone’s unceasing activism during the Covid years helped get “Ban the Jab” resolutions passed by local GOPs in 10 different Florida counties as well in localities in Idaho, Arizona, and other states.

In addition to Rep. Hudson, the Minnesota bill’s seven other sponsors include Reps. Keith Allen, Pam Altendorf, Jeff Dotseth, Krista Knudsen, Shane Mekeland, Tom Murphy, and Isaac Schultz (Deputy Speaker Pro Tempore). The Minnesota Reformer disapprovingly commented that while the bill is not likely to pass, it gives “a sense of how the [GOP] would govern if it controlled the state legislature.” We suggest that Minnesotans let the bill’s sponsors know that they appreciate the legislators’ bold action.