b'Now Is the Time!Support the Proposed28th Medical Freedom AmendmentBY MICHAEL LEVESQUE, NHF BOARD MEMBERT heproposed28thMedicalOur Intolerablemedicalop- and the patient, a vital relationship.FreedomAmendmenttoOppression Must End The third is protecting the medical theU.S.ConstitutionistheWeareexperiencingprivacy and sovereignty of the individ-long-awaited eleventh amend- pression, medical censorship, medicalual from the oppression of governmen-ment to the Bill of Rights. The Amend- discrimination,andmedicalabuseoftal medical edicts.ment states the following:unprecedented scope, with no account- By adopting the 28th Medical Free-ability or responsibility on the part ofdomAmendment,wewouldprovide AllpeoplehavetheRighttose- theoppressors,censors,andabusers.the U.S. Supreme Court with clear and curetheirHealthinthemannerThis state of affairs has continued forconvincing evidence that the citizens of theychoose.Congress,thePresi- too long, has become intolerable, andthis great Nation demand the protection dent, State Legislatures and Exec- must end now. of informed consent, freedom of medi-utives, Governmental Agencies, orThemostimportantandpressingcal choice, the right to medical choice, Departments shall make no law orneed is to protect the freedom of medi- and the right to medical privacy. Once executive order that impedes the In- cal choice built upon informed consent.the Amendment is adopted, those rights dividuals rights to informed consentMedical informed consent is a conceptbecomeimbeddedwithintheUnited nor right to medical choice nor free- enshrined in and inherently guaranteedStates Constitution for generations to dom of medical choice. Nor shallby the Nuremberg Code of 1947 in itscome. There is an urgency to adopt this the President, Congress, State Legis- very first point. Informed consent essen- Amendmentnevermoreclearlypre-latures or Executives, Governmentaltially means that no agreementorper- sented before us than today.Agencies, or Departments make anymission canbegivenbyapatienttoThe President, Congress, and State law or executive order that impedesanyone else to perform a medical pro- Governors and legislators, with the aid the Individuals right to medical pri- cedureuponhimorherunlessthatof governmental agencies, have made vacy and freedom without an indi- patienthasfirstbeengiven full andmedical slaves of every citizen of the vidual and specific judicial warrantaccurate informationabout thepossi- United States of America by taking away supported by Oath and affirmationbleeffectsorresults of the procedure ortheir rights to informed consent, medical of necessary cause to protect Societymedicine. freedom, medical privacy, and freedom from Harm describing the Individ- The second is the protection of med- of medical choice.uals condition and danger it pres- ical freedom so as to shield the relation- Informed consent is a cornerstone of ents.shipbetweenthehealthcareproviderindividual sovereignty. It is by the en-10 H ealtHF reedomN ews /F all2022NHF_40-3_Linda_11-25-2022.indd 10 11/25/22 8:02 AM'