Protect Your Child
The US Constitution and Bill of Rights protects the precious right and responsibility of health we can provide to our children only if we demand that protection and enforce those rights. Medical Freedom is not listed, it is only inferred. Therefore, we need the Medical Freedom Amendment to stand as a constant reminder to that freedom for health and life.
Parental rights has become a major issue since the COVID-19 vaccination program which does not provide informed consent and creates many egregious issues. Parents are the necessary decision makers for their children. Informed consent requires that the person giving consent not only is fully informed, they are also capable of comprehending the full meaning of any medical procedure, comprehending its ramifications and outcome. Children are not of that age. They come under the sole protection and decision of the parents.
The necessary protection has been denied by the government at all levels - legislative, executive, and judicial. See the Blog for specific details.
As an aid in this dire situation it is important to share any article that assists parents in protecting their children through the medical maze of today.
The following full article in its entirety because of its extreme relevance to parental rights and medical freedom. Please share it and discuss it with others, especially your school administrators, nurses, and departments of education. It appears that schools can become the hospitals of tomorrow without boundaries and enforced regulations of medical freedom and body autonomy of our children. This is called ownership and must not be allowed.
At the same time there is a grave necessity for parents to converse with their children, support them in a way that keeps communication open and honest. Parents need to be a part of their children's lives more than ever because of the the many influences arising outside the family.
Here are two links that quickly take you to details of minor consent, parental rights, and school based health centers.
Here is the reprint from the organization Stand for Health Freedom that posted this information a couple years ago. It remains especially relevant throughout these difficult times of courts enforcing governmental decision contrary to parental rights.
"...make sure you’re prepared to address the next threat to health freedom taking place in schools throughout the nation. As reported in our Battles ahead email, School-based Health Centers (SBHCs) are expanding across the country, thanks to recent federal action, including the June 2022 passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act in Congress and quickly followed by millions of dollars in grants awarded to states by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for expansion of SBHCs.
Don’t let the name fool you (or your lawmakers). They sound old hat, but School-based Health Centers are not your typical school-nurse model of care where minor illnesses and injuries are treated. SBHCs are intended by the Biden-Harris administration to be the “medical home” for your child, including primary health care services, reproductive counseling, dental care, and mental health counseling, replacing what the child would typically receive from providers outside of the school. Even worse, the Department of Education (DOE) has proposed changing the process for students with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), removing the requirement for schools to receive parental consent before submitting Medicaid claims for reimbursement on behalf of their children. Their stated purpose for doing so is to streamline their process for reimbursement, overcoming a perceived administrative burden, while prioritizing Medicaid as the primary school funding source for providing legally required services to students with disabilities. When schools make Medicaid claims on behalf of the child, care and services parents seek outside of school risk being denied, preventing the child from getting the care he or she needs.
Since SBHCs are currently completely unregulated, there’s no set standard for who employs the providers, which services are offered, whether the services are provided to only students or also the community at-large, or how parental presence and parental consent are handled. Some schools are only asking parents to sign a single form at the start of the school year for their child to be seen in the SBHC anytime (and for any reason) throughout the school year. Other schools in states with minor consent laws are not only bypassing parental consent, but also intentionally withholding information in the name of “the student’s privacy.” There are also questions about which laws (if any) govern this health data since FERPA regulates student data, HIPAA regulates health data, and loopholes exist for both.
Some proponents of SBHCs argue that these in-school clinics promote better access to health care for children and relieve busy parents of the burden of taking their children to the doctor. But medical ethics do not allow physicians to treat minors without a parent or guardian present, which is why parents cannot simply drop their child off at the doctor’s office and come back later to collect them. As previously stated, neither the federal government nor any state currently regulates School-based Health Centers nor provides guardrails for parental consent, parental presence during the time of treatment, or student health data privacy within the SBHC.
What’s worse, we’re seeing a wave of states across the country filing bills to lower the age of consent to medical care from age 18 to as low as age 11. This means schools do not have to get parental consent to treat the child and, even worse, parental objection to treatment is meaningless. When you combine the push for health care expansion within schools (a place where children are away from their parents) with the push for minor consent laws (nullifying the need for parents), the anti-parent agenda becomes clear.
One example of this playing out in real time can be seen in California. In 2011, California passed a minor consent law allowing children to consent to their own medical care beginning at age 12. In July 2022, Harvard’s Center for Policy Law and Innovation and University of California, Davis jointly published their research showing that School-based Health Centers are even more effective at increasing HPV vaccination rates than state mandates. Pairing SBHCs with minor consent laws almost entirely eliminates the biggest obstacle to HPV vaccines: parental objection.
What can parents do?
As always, at Stand for Health Freedom we don’t just talk about the problems; we bring you solutions. We don’t have to sit idly by as predatory policy is passed around us, leaving our children vulnerable. As Andy Zay (Indiana state Senator, Congressional candidate, and author of the nation’s first parent-friendly SBHC bill) said in his testimony, “Parents are not the problem, parents are the solution.”
Easy steps you can take to protect your child, grandchild, or loved one below.
Steps you can take
NStep One: Download the SHF “Cliff’s Notes” on SBHCs to arm yourself with easy-to-digest info before school’s in session again this year.
Download
NStep Two: Share this info far and wide to help parents across the country know to stand guard. Click the links on the left side of the page to share to social media, or forward the email you got from us.
NStep Three: If you’re not yet on our email list, make sure to sign up. We have strategic action items and updates coming your way on this issue, which will only grow as schools open and the federal government sets their budget for the coming year.
Join
My Child, My Choice
-end-
Also, pass on the lobbying efforts of the National Health Federation and the growing awareness of the Medical Freedom Amendment.
The Medical Freedom Amendment videos are on YouTube and the MFA blog March 2024 at MedicalFreedomAmendment.org in several languages – Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-h2K-8HUvU
Join the National Health Federation. Take part in supporting the Medical Freedom Amendment. Go to Campaigns at https://thenhf.com/pass-the-medical-freedom-amendment/
The NHF Medical Freedom Amendment Campaign
-Michael LeVesque-
Parental rights has become a major issue since the COVID-19 vaccination program which does not provide informed consent and creates many egregious issues. Parents are the necessary decision makers for their children. Informed consent requires that the person giving consent not only is fully informed, they are also capable of comprehending the full meaning of any medical procedure, comprehending its ramifications and outcome. Children are not of that age. They come under the sole protection and decision of the parents.
The necessary protection has been denied by the government at all levels - legislative, executive, and judicial. See the Blog for specific details.
As an aid in this dire situation it is important to share any article that assists parents in protecting their children through the medical maze of today.
The following full article in its entirety because of its extreme relevance to parental rights and medical freedom. Please share it and discuss it with others, especially your school administrators, nurses, and departments of education. It appears that schools can become the hospitals of tomorrow without boundaries and enforced regulations of medical freedom and body autonomy of our children. This is called ownership and must not be allowed.
At the same time there is a grave necessity for parents to converse with their children, support them in a way that keeps communication open and honest. Parents need to be a part of their children's lives more than ever because of the the many influences arising outside the family.
Here are two links that quickly take you to details of minor consent, parental rights, and school based health centers.
Here is the reprint from the organization Stand for Health Freedom that posted this information a couple years ago. It remains especially relevant throughout these difficult times of courts enforcing governmental decision contrary to parental rights.
"...make sure you’re prepared to address the next threat to health freedom taking place in schools throughout the nation. As reported in our Battles ahead email, School-based Health Centers (SBHCs) are expanding across the country, thanks to recent federal action, including the June 2022 passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act in Congress and quickly followed by millions of dollars in grants awarded to states by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for expansion of SBHCs.
Don’t let the name fool you (or your lawmakers). They sound old hat, but School-based Health Centers are not your typical school-nurse model of care where minor illnesses and injuries are treated. SBHCs are intended by the Biden-Harris administration to be the “medical home” for your child, including primary health care services, reproductive counseling, dental care, and mental health counseling, replacing what the child would typically receive from providers outside of the school. Even worse, the Department of Education (DOE) has proposed changing the process for students with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), removing the requirement for schools to receive parental consent before submitting Medicaid claims for reimbursement on behalf of their children. Their stated purpose for doing so is to streamline their process for reimbursement, overcoming a perceived administrative burden, while prioritizing Medicaid as the primary school funding source for providing legally required services to students with disabilities. When schools make Medicaid claims on behalf of the child, care and services parents seek outside of school risk being denied, preventing the child from getting the care he or she needs.
Since SBHCs are currently completely unregulated, there’s no set standard for who employs the providers, which services are offered, whether the services are provided to only students or also the community at-large, or how parental presence and parental consent are handled. Some schools are only asking parents to sign a single form at the start of the school year for their child to be seen in the SBHC anytime (and for any reason) throughout the school year. Other schools in states with minor consent laws are not only bypassing parental consent, but also intentionally withholding information in the name of “the student’s privacy.” There are also questions about which laws (if any) govern this health data since FERPA regulates student data, HIPAA regulates health data, and loopholes exist for both.
Some proponents of SBHCs argue that these in-school clinics promote better access to health care for children and relieve busy parents of the burden of taking their children to the doctor. But medical ethics do not allow physicians to treat minors without a parent or guardian present, which is why parents cannot simply drop their child off at the doctor’s office and come back later to collect them. As previously stated, neither the federal government nor any state currently regulates School-based Health Centers nor provides guardrails for parental consent, parental presence during the time of treatment, or student health data privacy within the SBHC.
What’s worse, we’re seeing a wave of states across the country filing bills to lower the age of consent to medical care from age 18 to as low as age 11. This means schools do not have to get parental consent to treat the child and, even worse, parental objection to treatment is meaningless. When you combine the push for health care expansion within schools (a place where children are away from their parents) with the push for minor consent laws (nullifying the need for parents), the anti-parent agenda becomes clear.
One example of this playing out in real time can be seen in California. In 2011, California passed a minor consent law allowing children to consent to their own medical care beginning at age 12. In July 2022, Harvard’s Center for Policy Law and Innovation and University of California, Davis jointly published their research showing that School-based Health Centers are even more effective at increasing HPV vaccination rates than state mandates. Pairing SBHCs with minor consent laws almost entirely eliminates the biggest obstacle to HPV vaccines: parental objection.
What can parents do?
As always, at Stand for Health Freedom we don’t just talk about the problems; we bring you solutions. We don’t have to sit idly by as predatory policy is passed around us, leaving our children vulnerable. As Andy Zay (Indiana state Senator, Congressional candidate, and author of the nation’s first parent-friendly SBHC bill) said in his testimony, “Parents are not the problem, parents are the solution.”
Easy steps you can take to protect your child, grandchild, or loved one below.
Steps you can take
NStep One: Download the SHF “Cliff’s Notes” on SBHCs to arm yourself with easy-to-digest info before school’s in session again this year.
Download
NStep Two: Share this info far and wide to help parents across the country know to stand guard. Click the links on the left side of the page to share to social media, or forward the email you got from us.
NStep Three: If you’re not yet on our email list, make sure to sign up. We have strategic action items and updates coming your way on this issue, which will only grow as schools open and the federal government sets their budget for the coming year.
Join
My Child, My Choice
-end-
Also, pass on the lobbying efforts of the National Health Federation and the growing awareness of the Medical Freedom Amendment.
The Medical Freedom Amendment videos are on YouTube and the MFA blog March 2024 at MedicalFreedomAmendment.org in several languages – Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-h2K-8HUvU
Join the National Health Federation. Take part in supporting the Medical Freedom Amendment. Go to Campaigns at https://thenhf.com/pass-the-medical-freedom-amendment/
The NHF Medical Freedom Amendment Campaign
-Michael LeVesque-
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