We need medical rights
Back when our Founding Fathers wrote our Constitution, the concept of medical rights barely blipped on their radar screens. Ok, that might have something to do with the fact that radar screens didn't exist back then, but let's be honest. Their medicine bags contained a bottle of whiskey, sassafras root, and a twig or two of willow. If the contents of the Doc's bag didn't cure the patient, what Granny's little brown jug contained would, or would at least by the time the patient woke up after taking a few shots. Medicine grew in leaps and bounds since the founding of this country so that by the early twentieth century, we had a rudimentary understanding of germs, viruses, genes and their roles in disease and ailments. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, which is how we ended up with a eugenics program, frontal lobotomies, forced sterilizations, human testing on the effects of diseases like syphilis, and mass immunizations that turned out not to be as safe as