The Food and Drug Administration makes it illegal for critically ill people to try medications that might work, but haven’t been approved by their majesties in the FDA. There is a lawsuit the Supreme Court is going to hear over this matter. Today’s Wall Street Journal features this article by one of the lawyers for the plaintiff.
The Court should (but won’t) settle this by asking where in the Constitution is authority given for Congress (and a fortiori an agency created by Congress) to forbid citizens from taking any medication. There is no such authority.
I would bet that there are many “liberals” who’d like to see sick people and their doctors have the freedom to try medications without having to beg for permission from federal bureaucrats. Well, they would have that freedom if it weren’t for the vast, nearly omnipotent state they (i.e., “liberals”) unleashed during the New Deal.
