Idaho Legislature: Ask Legislators to VOTE YES on H0059 Medical ethics defense act (posted 01/25/25, updated 02/06/25)

• Bill: legislature.idaho.gov/s…

• Contact Legislators: emailidaho.com

(Check the linked page or use My Bill Tracker for the bill’s current status.)

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🔥House Health & Welfare Committee Hearing at 9am Thu Feb 6, 2025! Rep. Bruce Skaug presents this important bill.

• 2/6/25 Update 11:37am: H0059 passed in H&W Committee 13-2! FANTASTIC! Now it goes to the Full House.

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Where: Room EW20 | Idaho State Capitol | 700 W Jefferson St, Boise, ID 83702 | Map: maps.app.goo.gl/ZzXWUcX…

Watch online: idahoptv.org/shows/idah…

• Agenda: legislature.idaho.gov/w…

• House Health & Welfare Committee: Click tabs on the page to learn how to testify online or in person. legislature.idaho.gov/s…

• Secretary: Irene Moore | Email: hhel@house.idaho.gov | Phone: 208-332-1138

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H0059 protects health care professionals, health care institutions, and health care payers from discrimination, punishment, and retaliation for exercising their conscientious medical objections to non-emergency procedures. The bill also provides for civil penalties, including fines, for those who violate the terms of the bill.

H0059 will supersede other Idaho laws that are less protective of conscience rights.

After all the censorship, discrimination, lawsuits, license and certification withdrawals, intimidation, and loss of ability to practice responsible medicine during the COVID era, the rights of healthcare professionals must be codified in law so they cannot be taken away again. Many people died or were permanently injured because health professionals were censored, afraid to speak, or denied the ability to practice what they considered responsible quality medicine.

Idaho's healthcare system desperately need these protections! H0059 not only protects the healthcare professionals themselves, it also protects patients and their ability to receive true informed consent from the healthcare system. Key provisions:

• No healthcare professionals should be forced to participate in non-emergency procedures that would violate their sincerely held religious, moral, or ethical beliefs.

• No healthcare professionals should be forced to violate their oath to "do no harm."

• No healthcare professionals should suffer discrimination when they exercise their rights of conscience.

• No healthcare professionals should have to put patient care at risk for fear of discrimination when they report violations of the law or exercise their constitutionally protected free speech rights.

Here are just a few examples of ethical medical professionals who lost licenses, were severely affected financially, or were persecuted by medical boards, hospitals, media, and courts for speaking out against dangerous medical interventions or for supporting interventions they believed could help patients but were disliked by mainstream authorities:

• Dr. Ryan Cole (Idaho)

• Dr. Simone Gold

• Dr. Eitan Haim

• Dr. Pierre Kory

• Dr. Paul Marik

• Dr. Peter McCullough

• Dr. Renata Moon

• Dr. Meryl Nass

• Dr. Jackie Stone

• Dr. Zev Zelenko

Countless more exist, many of whom participated in the International Crisis Summits (ICS):

Vote YES to lead the way out of decades (and more) of healthcare darkness and back into the light.