Using State Constitutions to Protect Health Freedom
If a right to privacy is large enough to create a right to abortion, why doesn’t it also establish a right to keep government out of all of your health-related decisions?
George F. Will asks these and a few other questions relating to the constitutionality of the health “reforms” being pushed by the congressional leadership.
For example, speaking of efforts to establish health freedom in state constitutions, Will asks,
“But does not federal law trump state laws? Not necessarily. Clint Bolick, a Goldwater Institute attorney, says, “It is a bedrock principle of constitutional law that the federal Constitution established a floor for the protection of individual liberties; state constitutions may provide additional protections.”"
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