Dr Rowan, I want to thank you for articulating this perspective, for your use of the term statist, and for reminding us of the consequential 1942 court decision on US Govt v farmer Roscoe Filburn.
As a farmer making cropping decisions I have indeed lost sovereignty over the years, as you have in medicine. The list of crops — good, nutritious organic food and natural medicines — that I no longer market or produce for the general public has lengthened over the years as regulations complicate and proliferate, and constrains tightened over what information I am allowed to communicate to my customers. Just two examples: safe effective pain relief for arthritis or gout, and safe effective birth control, both research supported, tried and tested with long records of use, and organically grown on the farm. Suppressed. Lost. Who among you know what I’m talking about?
While individual sovereignty as to food and medicine is my ideal, I, too, welcome movement towards greater localization of control and away from centralized control. I do see it as a step in the right direction.
As a farmer, I may be wary of county regulators, but at least we live in the same community and have the opportunity to develop relationships. We work at it —talking together, meeting together, informing each other. But when the Feds show up, sometimes literally with guns, it can be a different story.
My experience is that most people today are unaware of just how regulated, pressured, and constrained farmers are, unaware of the culture that has been lost. The carve-out for the protection of organic production (the NOP) was a vast effort, hard fought, and is under constant attack. Again, a similar story to the efforts to protect alternative medicine.
You have my sincere thanks, Dr Rowan, for the efforts you make and the risks you take to educate and share with us.
A retired health professional walked into my office today and told me of many instances of mayhem in the recent days dealing with pro-abortion which the mainstream press has ignored. I can understand why you are not aware.
I have not said I am pro abortion, nor said I am against it. I remain steadfast as pro Constitution. I don't happen to like the laws of many countries, including Iran, and Islamist states. I am free not to go there, live there or patronize them. I don't like many of the laws of the Union state I live in. The USA was founded as a union of sovereign states with an agreement that any Citizen of one state could freely go to any other state. This is the time to consider it for anyone who considers the laws. of their state unacceptable. We are either a nation of laws or a nation of men ("men" here not referencing a gender/sex). I prefer the former.
I abhor violence. I abhor war. The war in Ukraine could have been prevented by dialogue, Instead, zealots risked and created destruction of the country rather than adhere to past agreements and compromise.
These events, at least to me, point to an agenda of violence on the pro-abortion side, which is reprehensible, just as boring an abortion clinic is reprehensible. We must not go down the path of extremism on either side and begin respecting divergency PEACEFULLY.
Here Here! and then some. The battle against administrative tyranny by the federal bureaucrats has engaged. I'm afraid that it will be a holding engagement at best. As Dr. Rowen stated, the roots of this go back a long way. Technology that was hoped to be a force for freedom and self government has gone to the dark side I'm afraid.
I hope that you are correct that this abortion diecision leads to limiting the federal government, through FDA, regulating medical practice. If that is so, then an interpretation of the 14th amendment applies that limitation to the states. But since this only shows that courts are political in their decisions.
The Dissenting justices who defended a woman's right to decide what is to do to their bodies, uniformly did not recognize the right of a person to refuse vaccination. It makes me wonder.
Your comment about the aftermath of the Floyd murder was grossly inaccurate. Much of the rioting and looting was spawned by agent provocateurs. In Minneapolis specifically by vigilantes from Wisconsin and outstate Mn. I know, I saw their license plates and dealer stickers.
There is no solution once an unwanted pregnancy has occurred. There is suffering no matter what. The only true solution is to build a society where there is no unwanted conception. Spend 10 billion dollars on research on nontoxic birth control including examination of all traditional cultural methods. Make keeping a child or giving it up for adoption a more viable choice for people. Restore village and extended family culture where a child and mother have access to numerous concerned adults coming through the home on a regular basis. Make calendar planning mandatory learning for everyone. Incent people to not have kids through some tax breaks or something. If one believes in climate change, mathematically, not having kids is by orders of magnitude the most powerful thing the average person can do to fight it. Plenty of other reasons to curtail the population. People need to walk their talk. If they did, there would be plenty of adopters available. All share the blame for the society we have created. People only want to argue about bandaids instead of grappling with the magnitude of the problems root causes, and admitting their part in it. Lastly, more than 50% of human beings on the planet believe in reincarnation. That includes 25% of Christians in the USA. Strangely, the religious arguments around abortion do not even remotely represent the demographics of humanity. The conclusions that stem from reincarnation are not black and white and quite nuanced, a sign that it's correct.
Dr. Rowen, if in 1973 the Supreme Court ruled that the constitution protected people from forced vaccinations and gave every individual the right to refuse any vaccination without repercussion, and then that right was yanked away and left to the states (half of which would force vaccinations, including the covid vaccine), would you be writing this same exact article?
I believe that all medical decisions should be made solely between a patient and doctor and that the doctor/patient relationship should be free of overreach from the state and federal government. This includes choices surrounding vaccination as well as reproductive rights.
The idea that anyone, either direction, would impose their beliefs on someone else while simultaneously demanding their own bodily sovereignty is hypocritical. Everyone needs to mind their own business. If it’s not your body, then no one else gets a say. Medical privacy is EVERYONE’S right.
I like your articles. I think you’re compassionate and there are so many things I agree with. But I don’t agree with government regulation(s) that forces anyone to comply with someone else’s idea of what they can or can’t, should or shouldn’t do with their own body when it comes to their healthcare. It goes both ways whether it be vaccinations or reproductive rights. I belong to myself, no one else. I get to decide what is medically right for me and what is not based upon my own beliefs, religious or otherwise.
Has the composition of the current Supreme Court, with six being of the same religious background , created this overreach of what they think is within their jurisdiction to legislate.
120 years ago, federal govt absorbed less than 2% of GDP. Then came the Fed and the 16th amendment, which allowed citizens to vote themselves money and triggered a massive expansion of government, creating a de facto democracy, in contravention of the most basic intent of the framers. In 2010, federal govt absorbed a little over 40% of GDP, which is unsustainable. After the last two years, my guess is that govt has surpassed 100% of GDP, an act which presaged the collapse and subsumption of Germany, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, China and of course, pre soviet Russia.
Unconstitutional departments: Education, Energy, HUD, HHS, and anything else that preferentially assists or burdens any one citizen or group of citizens or attempts to regulate matters not enumerated in the constitution.
That government is best that governs least. - HD Thoreau
Really good explanation, Dr. Rowan , as always. I am watching this all from Germany and even though I lived 27 years in California, I always can learn more from your rowen reports. Please keep it up und keep us informed.
Perfectly stated, Dr. Rowen! "How is it possible to limit the feds to just the abortion medical matter under the guise of privacy, etc? How is it that the state was prohibited by the feds from banning abortion, but permitted to ban my dissemination of balancing COVID information to adults? This single medical procedure, abortion, got a whacky but free federally protected ride, while alternative doctors have feared for their licenses for providing desired helpful services."
Thank you an excellently open piece. I'm annoyed at the media sensationalist and almost premeditated dismissal of what was ACTUALLY overturned. This is confusing a lot of minds as to what the real issue is.
I have a feeling, much like C19, the media will ride this pony to the bank. I'm sure there will later be shown media received more funding to promote this angle, as they did with the c19 shots.
Dr Rowan, I want to thank you for articulating this perspective, for your use of the term statist, and for reminding us of the consequential 1942 court decision on US Govt v farmer Roscoe Filburn.
As a farmer making cropping decisions I have indeed lost sovereignty over the years, as you have in medicine. The list of crops — good, nutritious organic food and natural medicines — that I no longer market or produce for the general public has lengthened over the years as regulations complicate and proliferate, and constrains tightened over what information I am allowed to communicate to my customers. Just two examples: safe effective pain relief for arthritis or gout, and safe effective birth control, both research supported, tried and tested with long records of use, and organically grown on the farm. Suppressed. Lost. Who among you know what I’m talking about?
While individual sovereignty as to food and medicine is my ideal, I, too, welcome movement towards greater localization of control and away from centralized control. I do see it as a step in the right direction.
As a farmer, I may be wary of county regulators, but at least we live in the same community and have the opportunity to develop relationships. We work at it —talking together, meeting together, informing each other. But when the Feds show up, sometimes literally with guns, it can be a different story.
My experience is that most people today are unaware of just how regulated, pressured, and constrained farmers are, unaware of the culture that has been lost. The carve-out for the protection of organic production (the NOP) was a vast effort, hard fought, and is under constant attack. Again, a similar story to the efforts to protect alternative medicine.
You have my sincere thanks, Dr Rowan, for the efforts you make and the risks you take to educate and share with us.
To Herb,
You said , "I am not aware of any defenders of a woman’s right to choose who have engaged in violent actions. " Please see this link: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/christian-persecutions-the-us/.
A retired health professional walked into my office today and told me of many instances of mayhem in the recent days dealing with pro-abortion which the mainstream press has ignored. I can understand why you are not aware.
I have not said I am pro abortion, nor said I am against it. I remain steadfast as pro Constitution. I don't happen to like the laws of many countries, including Iran, and Islamist states. I am free not to go there, live there or patronize them. I don't like many of the laws of the Union state I live in. The USA was founded as a union of sovereign states with an agreement that any Citizen of one state could freely go to any other state. This is the time to consider it for anyone who considers the laws. of their state unacceptable. We are either a nation of laws or a nation of men ("men" here not referencing a gender/sex). I prefer the former.
I abhor violence. I abhor war. The war in Ukraine could have been prevented by dialogue, Instead, zealots risked and created destruction of the country rather than adhere to past agreements and compromise.
In the abortion issue, zealots on both sides have done things I could never condone. In answer to Herb, I point to this: https://needtoknow.news/2022/06/%EF%BF%BCsoros-funded-womens-march-behind-riot-in-phoenix-following-roe-v-wade-decision/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=%25ef%25bf%25bcsoros-funded-womens-march-behind-riot-in-phoenix-following-roe-v-wade-decision.
These events, at least to me, point to an agenda of violence on the pro-abortion side, which is reprehensible, just as boring an abortion clinic is reprehensible. We must not go down the path of extremism on either side and begin respecting divergency PEACEFULLY.
Well said, Dr. Rowen. Federal government overreach is a totalitarian move. Let the states decide.
Here Here! and then some. The battle against administrative tyranny by the federal bureaucrats has engaged. I'm afraid that it will be a holding engagement at best. As Dr. Rowen stated, the roots of this go back a long way. Technology that was hoped to be a force for freedom and self government has gone to the dark side I'm afraid.
RSH
I hope that you are correct that this abortion diecision leads to limiting the federal government, through FDA, regulating medical practice. If that is so, then an interpretation of the 14th amendment applies that limitation to the states. But since this only shows that courts are political in their decisions.
The Dissenting justices who defended a woman's right to decide what is to do to their bodies, uniformly did not recognize the right of a person to refuse vaccination. It makes me wonder.
Your comment about the aftermath of the Floyd murder was grossly inaccurate. Much of the rioting and looting was spawned by agent provocateurs. In Minneapolis specifically by vigilantes from Wisconsin and outstate Mn. I know, I saw their license plates and dealer stickers.
Excellent explanation!! Thank you Dr Rowen.
There is no solution once an unwanted pregnancy has occurred. There is suffering no matter what. The only true solution is to build a society where there is no unwanted conception. Spend 10 billion dollars on research on nontoxic birth control including examination of all traditional cultural methods. Make keeping a child or giving it up for adoption a more viable choice for people. Restore village and extended family culture where a child and mother have access to numerous concerned adults coming through the home on a regular basis. Make calendar planning mandatory learning for everyone. Incent people to not have kids through some tax breaks or something. If one believes in climate change, mathematically, not having kids is by orders of magnitude the most powerful thing the average person can do to fight it. Plenty of other reasons to curtail the population. People need to walk their talk. If they did, there would be plenty of adopters available. All share the blame for the society we have created. People only want to argue about bandaids instead of grappling with the magnitude of the problems root causes, and admitting their part in it. Lastly, more than 50% of human beings on the planet believe in reincarnation. That includes 25% of Christians in the USA. Strangely, the religious arguments around abortion do not even remotely represent the demographics of humanity. The conclusions that stem from reincarnation are not black and white and quite nuanced, a sign that it's correct.
Dr. Rowen, if in 1973 the Supreme Court ruled that the constitution protected people from forced vaccinations and gave every individual the right to refuse any vaccination without repercussion, and then that right was yanked away and left to the states (half of which would force vaccinations, including the covid vaccine), would you be writing this same exact article?
I believe that all medical decisions should be made solely between a patient and doctor and that the doctor/patient relationship should be free of overreach from the state and federal government. This includes choices surrounding vaccination as well as reproductive rights.
The idea that anyone, either direction, would impose their beliefs on someone else while simultaneously demanding their own bodily sovereignty is hypocritical. Everyone needs to mind their own business. If it’s not your body, then no one else gets a say. Medical privacy is EVERYONE’S right.
I like your articles. I think you’re compassionate and there are so many things I agree with. But I don’t agree with government regulation(s) that forces anyone to comply with someone else’s idea of what they can or can’t, should or shouldn’t do with their own body when it comes to their healthcare. It goes both ways whether it be vaccinations or reproductive rights. I belong to myself, no one else. I get to decide what is medically right for me and what is not based upon my own beliefs, religious or otherwise.
Brenda
Has the composition of the current Supreme Court, with six being of the same religious background , created this overreach of what they think is within their jurisdiction to legislate.
120 years ago, federal govt absorbed less than 2% of GDP. Then came the Fed and the 16th amendment, which allowed citizens to vote themselves money and triggered a massive expansion of government, creating a de facto democracy, in contravention of the most basic intent of the framers. In 2010, federal govt absorbed a little over 40% of GDP, which is unsustainable. After the last two years, my guess is that govt has surpassed 100% of GDP, an act which presaged the collapse and subsumption of Germany, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, China and of course, pre soviet Russia.
Unconstitutional departments: Education, Energy, HUD, HHS, and anything else that preferentially assists or burdens any one citizen or group of citizens or attempts to regulate matters not enumerated in the constitution.
That government is best that governs least. - HD Thoreau
Thank for a very well written explanation.
Really good explanation, Dr. Rowan , as always. I am watching this all from Germany and even though I lived 27 years in California, I always can learn more from your rowen reports. Please keep it up und keep us informed.
Perfectly stated, Dr. Rowen! "How is it possible to limit the feds to just the abortion medical matter under the guise of privacy, etc? How is it that the state was prohibited by the feds from banning abortion, but permitted to ban my dissemination of balancing COVID information to adults? This single medical procedure, abortion, got a whacky but free federally protected ride, while alternative doctors have feared for their licenses for providing desired helpful services."
Thank you an excellently open piece. I'm annoyed at the media sensationalist and almost premeditated dismissal of what was ACTUALLY overturned. This is confusing a lot of minds as to what the real issue is.
I have a feeling, much like C19, the media will ride this pony to the bank. I'm sure there will later be shown media received more funding to promote this angle, as they did with the c19 shots.