a basic tenet of human dignity and civil liberty is to choose one's own path in health.
DonateNJMFA – New Jersey Medical Freedom Advocates formed out of groups of patients, parents, and advocates who had worked on a wide range of patient issues such as vaccine choice and access to medical cannabis and oral chemotherapy medications.
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship ... To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic ... The Constitution of this republic should make the special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.
Dr. Benjamin Rush, noted physician, medical professor and an early surgeon general to all Continental armies, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence
