15 groups are pushing to replicate a medical freedom victory in Idaho nationwide.
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Fifteen groups are pushing to replicate a medical freedom victory in Idaho nationwide. |
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| Ivan Pentchoukov
National Editor |
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| Ivan Pentchoukov
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A coalition of medical freedom groups is targeting vaccine and mask mandates with a legislative campaign to pass medical freedom bills in every state. My colleague, Zack Stieber, who has been covering the push and pull over public health mandates since the controversies during the pandemic, spoke to the lead figures of the effort.
They see Idaho as a model. The state passed a law last year prohibiting businesses and schools from requiring customers, students, and employees to receive medical procedures.
“Because that passed, it really showed what was possible,” Leah Wilson, executive director and co-founder of Stand for Health Freedom, and one of the leaders of the coalition, told Zack. “Our goal is to take the Medical Freedom Act to as many states as possible across the U.S.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Health Secretary, founded one of the groups. A number of others are linked to his Make America Healthy Again movement.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the 2026 Munich Security Conference. (Gov. Newsom's Press Office) |
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On July 22, 2010, Rob Jones was a combat engineer in the U.S. Marine Corps, stationed in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. While on patrol, Jones stepped on an improvised explosive device (IED). It blew off his legs and sent him flying. When medical help arrived, Jones begged the attending doctor to kill him because he feared he would be permanently wheelchair-bound and unable to care for himself again. The attending doctor obviously did not follow Jones’s request. And, ultimately, Jones’s worst fear did not occur. As documented in his deeply moving autobiography, “Put Your Legs On,” Jones used his Marine Corps-infused determination and his own can-do spirit to forge a new life as a Paralympics medalist, bicyclist, and marathoner. Jones goes into extraordinary depth in recounting his path to recovery and the reinvention of his life. He details the initial stages of his hospitalization, first at a military base in Germany and then at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. While drifting in and out of medicated sleep, he learned that his legs were amputated above the knee.
During this period, Jones refused to fall victim to self-pity and anguish. He kept his sense of humor. Jones donned a pirate hat while in his hospital bed so his visitors could enjoy a laugh. He would later playfully quiz a nurse on why the medical professionals never came up with a more aesthetically-pleasing word to describe amputated legs than “stumps.” While in the initial stages of his recovery, Jones swore to regain, and then surpass, the physical prowess he enjoyed prior to his injury. (More) More on culture: |
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