Four years ago, a founder of Maine Stands Up addressed a standing room only crowd in a Topsham church during a monthly meeting of the Sagadahoc County Republican Committee and outlined her lawsuit against then-Maine CDC Director Nirav Shah alleging that the state had wrongly elevated its testing regime to generate false positive results for COVID 19. Despite the momentum her group awakened across the state, a sign of victory would be deferred.
While a Maine judge then denied her complaint, on Tuesday evening Dr. Northrup addressed a smaller group in Topsham on the same day that U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the national CDC would no longer recommend the COVID 10 vaccine for healthy young adults or pregnant women — a partial vindication of what Northrup and her movement long sought.
“Thank God the country is now beginning to see the light,” Northrup said.
A nationally-acclaimed OB/GYN physician and author on healthcare once called one of the most trusted people in America, the Yarmouth-based Northrup was subjected to derision and being effectively cancelled when she spoke out against the potentially harmful effects of the un-tested COVID vaccine. She inspired a grassroots movement of Mainers across the political spectrum who objected to the mandates and lock-downs imposed by Governor Janet Mills’ administration.
In 2023, Northrup advocated strongly on behalf of LD-51, to restore religious exemptions to the vaccine mandate.
“In 2020, this administration removed the God-given right of Mainers to determine what gets injected into their bodies and those of their children,” she said then. “This, along with constant fear-mongering and gas lighting has resulted in hundreds of Mainers losing their lives, their livelihoods, their fertility, their mental well-being, their community support — all off this despite the fact that safe and effective alternatives were widely available but heavily censored.”
For speaking out against the vaccines and mandates then, Northrup’s Instagram account was shut down, and she was widely ridiculed in the mainstream media. She said on Tuesday that others are pushing legal challenges to the past censorship, but she is grateful that God’s will is finally getting its day in official corridors.
