Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 2, 2012

Taking the collectivist logic of prohibition and food regulation to its logical conclusion, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) claims that adult stem cells are federally regulated drugs. In principle, this means that an individual?s body, for regulatory purposes, should be considered federal property.

Last August, the FDA filed a motion for summary judgment in a federal court battle with a Colorado health clinic offering a non-surgical treatment for people suffering from joint pain. The procedure uses samples of bone marrow or synovial fluid extracted from the client, from which adult stem cells are cultured. Unlike embryonic stem cell harvesting, this process does not involve injury of any kind to another human being.

As the Alliance for Natural Health points out, the FDA?s central claim in the motion for summary judgment is that an individual?s stem cells ?are drugs and therefore fall within their jurisdiction.?

?The implication of the FDA?s interpretation of the law, if upheld by the court, would mean that all food, drugs, devices, and biologic or cosmetic products would be subject to FDA jurisdiction,? the group concludes.

If government has the authority to regulate what individuals choose to consume, each individual?s body is in some sense State property ? right down to our stem cells.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.