Bill Summary
This bill, titled the Medical Freedom Act, tightens informed-consent rules for childhood vaccination, expands exemptions to school-entry immunization requirements, and formally limits state authority to force vaccination in public health emergencies. It also protects and broadens access to ivermectin for adults by shielding prescribers from liability and allowing pharmacists to dispense it without a prescription as a behind‑the‑counter medication, subject to counseling and documentation rules.
This bill, titled the Medical Freedom Act, tightens informed-consent rules for childhood vaccination, expands exemptions to school-entry immunization requirements, and formally limits state authority to force vaccination in public health emergencies. It also protects and broadens access to ivermectin for adults by shielding prescribers from liability and allowing pharmacists to dispense it without a prescription as a behind‑the‑counter medication, subject to counseling and documentation rules.
Why It Matters to the Make America Healthy Again Movement
The MAHA Movement supports this bill because it strengthens parental and individual control over medical decisions, adding a new conscience‑based exemption to school vaccine mandates (beyond existing religious and medical exemptions), requiring more robust vaccine risk-benefit disclosures for minors, and ensuring the state cannot compel vaccination during declared emergencies. MAHA also backs its provisions that allow adults to obtain ivermectin directly from pharmacists and that extend the existing ban on mRNA vaccine mandates indefinitely by removing the 2027 sunset, locking in long‑term protection against coerced uptake of rapidly changing vaccine technologies.