Each day we are tasked with the responsibility of our own health, asking ourselves each morning how we will go about our day and survive. We automatically decide how we will nourish our bodies, our minds, and our spirits so that we can have a healthy day in harmony with our world. For some, this is easier said than done.

The road to health and healing depends on our life path and circumstances and what resources are available to us to maintain health. But regardless of our circumstance, in America, health freedom is our basic freedom to make those decisions, for ourselves and for our family.

Recently I was grieving instances from the past four years where essential wishes and choices of people seeking health and support were not respected.  I was worried about how we could make sure that these things never happened again to Americans. The ones that were foremost in my mind were the stories of elders, some of whom were in their final days of dying, who were not allowed to have family members at their side during health emergency orders. How tragic and cruel of a circumstance that would be for any family. And then the other instances flooded my mind and heart; workers forced to choose between getting an experimental vaccine or lose their jobs, physicians disciplined for protecting their patients by using innovative ways of healing or sharing their concerns with the public, families asked to social distance and wear masks or be prosecuted, churches closed for gatherings, businesses closed and decimated, and the list goes on.

During these years, the surge of health freedom leaders going to their state capitols and finding representatives to introduce bills to protect their fundamental constitutional rights of health freedom was encouraging. And lawsuits that challenged the authority of the local, state, and federal governments to force people to act in ways that did not reflect the freedom that our country was founded upon were essential.

But now we are facing the future. Can this happen again? Are we prepared to protect our freedoms should the government attempt to infringe on them again? Did we make enough progress this round to protect health freedom if there is another health or other type of emergency? What will your school board do? What will your county commissioners do? What will your city council do?  What will your state do?

Wherever you live, whatever your circumstance, it is important to get to know and connect with leaders in your own community and state, to make sure that your health freedoms are protected into the future.

If you find that your freedoms are not protected,
gather together with others and work to put in place the needed protections. We are here to support you in your efforts.

We all need to have access to what we need to heal, and the ability to decide for ourselves what to do with our bodies even in the case of emergency. Bodily autonomy and personal freedom is a basic premise of American freedom.