INFORMED CONSENT AND BODILY AUTONOMY: Free Choice in Health Care?

INFORMED CONSENT AND BODILY AUTONOMY: Free Choice in Health Care?

From The Harte of Health: San Francisco Bay’s Voice for Scientific Chiropractic, Defying Medical Tyranny by Don Harte D.C., Corte Madera Traditional Chiropractor

April 9, 2026 · 10 min · Season 2 · Episode 15

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of bodily autonomy and informed consent in healthcare, highlighting historical warnings about medical tyranny and the need for personal liberty in health choices.

Body sovereignty... the essential concept of free individuals. It says that you have the right to bodily autonomy... to what is... and is not... done to your body and the bodies of your children. Dr. Benjamin Rush warned 250 years ago that without medical freedom in the Constitution, medicine would organize into an undercover medical dictatorship. He was right. Today, government authorities, in league with the medical and pharmaceutical industries... the very definition of medical fascism... tell you what to do with your health. This is an abomination. Real Chiropractic is the liberation of the human spine and nervous system from the medical swamp. It is the path to biological justice and personal liberty. The concept of body sovereignty and the warnings of Dr. Benjamin Rush are discussed. The Nuremberg trials, the Nuremberg code ethics, and the absolute necessity of voluntary consent are discussed. The "COVID catastrophe" and the illusion of government mandates and administrative law are discussed. Included are the problems of medical coercion, the lack of liability for Big Pharma, and the destruction of free choice. The importance of informed consent and the etymology of the…

People in this episode

Host: Don Harte

Topics covered

  • bodily autonomy
  • informed consent
  • medical freedom
  • chiropractic
  • medical coercion
  • COVID-19
  • Nuremberg trials

Keywords

  • body sovereignty
  • medical dictatorship
  • biological justice
  • free choice
  • medical fascism

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Places: Corte Madera, CA

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