Iowa Legislature: Invalidating Natural and Alternative Healingby Larry Hanus, Waterloo
Iowa Health Freedom
Stand up for your freedom to make your own health care choices.
Stand up for SF 2095.
Yesterday 9 members of the Iowa Health Freedom Coalition (IHFC) and the Native American Cedar River Medicine Society (CRMS) were rebuffed by Iowa's Senate Human Resources committee. Republican co-chair Jim Seymour refused to meet with us or even to discuss the Iowa Health Freedom Act, SF 2095. The Health Freedom Act, SF 2095, would effectively de-criminalize natural healing methods in Iowa, making them available to Iowans who must now either go out of state for alternative healthcare or find "illegal" underground practitioners in the state. Days before, in a dismissive tone, Seymour said that he planned on killing the bill.
After hitting this stone wall, 7 members of IHFC and CRMS had a meeting with Senate Republican majority leader Stewart Iverson to express our outrage, disbelief and disappointment at this abrogation of the democratic process and to demand that Sen. Seymour absent himself (withdraw) from his chair on the subcommittee hearing of the Health Freedom Act, SF 2095, due to self-declared bias and conflict of interest. Sen. Seymour is a retired hospital administrator and receives large campaign funding from sources within that industry.
Would freedom to choose natural and alternative healing impact that industry?
We demand that both Sen. Seymour and Sen. David Johnson, who has also pre-empted democratic dialectic, the art or practice of arriving at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments, be replaced with Republican legislators that are willing to have an unbiased, open-minded dialogue about health freedom for Iowans.
Currently there are 6 Health Freedom States: California, Rhode Island, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Minnesota and Idaho. Legislation is moving in 10 additional states.
Who gains by Sen. Seymour killing SF 2095?
Larry Hanus
319-269-6343
www.IowaHealthFreedom.org
Action Alert:
Please, immediately, call Republican Senate Majority Leader Stewart Iverson at 515-281-3560 and send an e-mail, stewart.iverson@legis.state.ia.us with SF 2095 in the subject line.
Demand that Sen. Seymour withdraw himself from his chair position on the subcommittee on Iowa's Health Freedom bill SF 2095, due to past employment history and to self-declared bias and financial self-interest.
Contact your own senator here.
