It’s amazing that an observation from 200 years ago is so relevant today. I can’t adequately express my admiration for the wisdom and foresight of the Founding Fathers. They may have expected that the right to medical protection was adequately covered under the umbrella rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, and therefore redundant. Does anything personify liberty more than the right to bodily integrity?
“Does anything personify liberty more than the right to bodily integrity?”
Well said. I wonder if the others rejected the idea due to the hordes of traveling medicine salespeople who peddled useless potions to the ill and unwary?
I know almost nothing about Benjamin Rush, but something seems fishy about that quote.