By James Spounias
If you’re an American who is seriously ill and you want to use a health treatment not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), do you have the constitutional right to do so? The answer is no, according to the Supreme Court. How could this be? This is America, where our entire history is imbued with red-blooded notions of liberty, freedom and natural rights, given by God and reason.
It may seem shocking to those who haven’t researched the issue, but rulings from courts suggest that the power of the medical-industrial complex and government enforcers is sacrosanct when measured against an individual’s right to use medical treatments.
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