April 29, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| One of my missions at Health Freedom Defense Fund in founding this organization was to educate the public and raise awareness about the importance of medical freedom, because I think it's the most basic and fundamental of human rights, and then to codify that in law. | |
| And the Idaho Medical Freedom Act is the first step in that process. | |
| Dr. Ryan Cole is a friend of mine, and he and I spoke at an event at the Capitol a couple of weeks ago in Boise, and he gave a fantastic illustration of this. | |
| If someone takes your house and you're homeless, and someone takes your car and you don't have a car, and someone takes your clothes and you don't have clothes, all you have left, you don't have any possessions left, you have one piece of property. | |
| And what is that? | |
| It's your body. | |
| You know, the Constitution says we have the right to protect our property. | |
| If there is anything more fundamental and basic than our bodies as a form of property, I can't think of it. | |
| And if someone can force me to undergo a medical intervention against my conscience, then no one in this country is free. | |
| One of the things that took a hit over the past years is doctors applying the Hippocratic Oath, the concept of do no harm. | |
| And it strikes me that this legislation, while not explicitly focused on this, Probably helps doctors to enact that more seriously once again if indeed their ability to do that was compromised in the past. | |
| I think there's no doubt that their ability to do that was compromised because we know that federal funds were tied to The hospitals and medical staff adhering to these federally dictated protocols, right? | |
| Well, guidelines, technically. | |
| Guidelines, yeah. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Yes, it was guidelines. | |
| It was kind of a standard of care that was issued by the federal government, by the CDC, in fact. | |
| And so those entities were in a difficult position. | |
| They got $40 for every COVID shot that they administered. | |
| But I think that the way that this bill has a broader effect is in terms of just... | |
| Reasserting that each and every one of us derives our rights from our Creator, not from the government. | |
| That the government is of, by, and for the people, not to oppress the people. | |
| And so I think that this elevates that conversation. | |
| And to me, that's what's the most important thing to have, is that we need to be engaging in this dialogue about who ultimately really owns us, who owns my body. | |
| For me, it's very clear. | |
| It's me as the individual. | |
| And it's me as the parent for children who are minors. |
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