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Health committee advances constitutional amendment on medical freedom amid heated debate
Summary
House Joint Resolution 28, which would place a proposed 'right to medical freedom' on the ballot, advanced to Finance, Ways and Means after a 14-7-1 committee vote following hours of legal and policy questioning.
The Tennessee House Health Committee voted 14-7, with one member present-not-voting, to advance House Joint Resolution 28 to the Finance, Ways and Means Committee. The resolution would place a proposed constitutional amendment before voters asking whether the Tennessee Constitution should explicitly prohibit the state from compelling medical treatment “absent due process of law.”
The sponsor told the committee the amendment would enshrine what supporters view as an existing constitutional liberty — the right to refuse…
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