EC Nursing and Healthcare

American political freedom has been a victim of Washington’s relentless drive toward a tyranny most firmly rejected nearly 250 years ago. The latest ploy has taken away our medical liberty or autonomy using a fabricated existential threat - CoViD - as justification [1]. If Americans want control over the most intimate component of life, our bodies, we must restore personal medical autonomy.

Autonomy comes from Greek, autos refers to self and nomos means rule or governance. In Great Britain, medical autonomy is defined as the “ability of a person to make self-determining [medical] choices, freely and independently, and without let or hindrance” [2]. Some American lawyers say autonomy means having free will in contrast to liberty where the individual can make decisions without input or regulation by a third party [3]. A person in prison has free will, i.e. autonomy, but not liberty. The general public conflates the two and uses medical autonomy when they mean medical liberty.

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