Parental Rights & Children's Healthcare Issues
From enrolling teenagers in drug studies without parental consent, to collecting babies' DNA samples at birth without parental knowledge, there have been efforts to study pharmaceuticals in teenagers and screen newborns for genetic disorders without the consent of parents. Yet, DNA taken at birth without informed, parental consent means that every citizen becomes a potential subject of government-sponsored genetic research. . . (continue reading)
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| Sept. 2007 |
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| Aug. 2007 |
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Vaccination-Choice Coalition Calls for Protecting Parental Rights |
| Aug. 2006 |
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| Jul. 2006 |
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| 10/31/2002 |
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| 9/8/2001 |
Federal Research "Protections" Committee Recommends Waiving
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child's participation? |
| Feb. 2001 |
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Control of Their Children - Link to Reason Magazine
article. |
| 6/5/2000 |
Fall
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| 9/13/1999 |
Dr. Gore Will See You Now - Link to a Cato Institute
editorial. |
| Jul. 1999 |
Shots in the Dark: Who Should Decide Which Vaccinations
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| 1/22/1999 |
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| 1/22/1999 |
Vaccinating
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| 8/12/1998 |
Are
Children Adequately Protected In Biomedical Research Trials?
Some advocacy groups are comparing the child-fenfluramine
experiment to the government-funded Tuskegee trials of
the 1940s, where blacks were intentionally denied treatment
for veneral disease. |
| 8/12/1998 |
Institute
for Health Freedom Sponsors A Health Policy Forum at the
National Press Club |
| 6/24/1998 |
Are American Children Being Lured Into Socialized Medicine? |
| 1/20/1998 |
Kidcare:
Socialized Medicine Through Government Schools
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| 9/2/1997 |
Warning
Labels for Kidcare |
| Jun. 1997 |
Tell
the Truth: It's a New Entitlement (Kidcare Program) |
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