StopFDACensorship.org Welcome. This site enables you to support legislation to stop FDA and FTC censorship; to become a Health Freedom Activist; and to contribute to the struggle to pass HR 3394 - Freedom of Health Speech Act, HR 3395 - Health Freedom Act, and HR 3396 - Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act. If you believe in health freedom, you are at the right place. Stay with us, read on, and join us in this historic struggle against censorship of health information.

THE PROBLEM FDA Censorship The FDA censors health information. It does so to protect drugs and its drug approval process from competition. The cost of FDA censorship is staggering. Consider the following examples: Between 1992 and 1996, FDA prohibited companies that sell folic acid from telling women of childbearing age that .4 mg of folic acid daily before pregnancy could reduce the incidence of neural tube defects (including spina bifida and encephaly) by 40%. FDA’s censorship contributed to a preventable 10,000 neural tube defect births. Between 1994 to 2000, FDA prohibited companies that sell omega-3 fatty acids from telling Americans that those fatty acids found in fish oil could reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by as much as 50%. FDA’s censorship contributed to a preventable 1.8 million sudden death heart attacks. Between 2000 and the present, FDA prohibits companies that sell saw palmetto extract (the fruit of the dwarf American palm tree) from telling Americans that saw palmetto reduces enlarged prostates and relieves related symptoms. Approximately 50% of all men age 50 and older suffer from enlarged prostates and are denied access to this information. Between 2000 and the present, FDA prohibits companies that sell glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate from telling Americans that those dietary ingredients treat osteoarthritis and relieve osteoarthritic pain and stiffness. Approximately 20 million Americans suffer needlessly from osteoarthritis. FDA censors every claim that a dietary ingredient treats disease, regardless of the proof in support of the claim. FDA only allows drug companies to make claims of treatment. It protects a monopoly for those companies at the expense of the health and freedom of the American people. The FDA’s unconstitutional system of speech censorship and monopoly protection has got to come to an end.                  Freedom On Trial - Video Watch over 1/2 hour of compelling video interviews of six courageous individuals that have been fighting FDA censorship for decades, winning four First Amendment cases against the agency! (Requires Windows Media Player) MORE... FTC Censorship The FTC is destroying American businesses. Under the First Amendment, government cannot restrict speech unless it can prove advertising deceptive by a preponderance of the evidence and, even then, it must rely on obvious less speech restrictive alternatives to outright suppression. FTC violates the First Amendment. FTC holds advertising deceptive not based on proof that the ads are false but based on the failure of a company accused of deception to prove to a near certain degree that the ads are true. That reverses the First Amendment burden of proof. That violates the Constitution. FTC has removed over $28 million dollars from the American economy based on charges of deceptive advertising under this unconstitutional regime. It has destroyed some companies and damaged others, resulting in unemployment for innocent workers at those companies. Rather than stop fraud, the FTC is in the business of defining a speech orthodoxy in America. The FTC’s unconstitutional actions must be stopped.   THE SOLUTION FDA and FTC Censorship robs the American people of health information indispensable to their exercise of freedom of choice. FDA and FTC Censorship benefits large drug companies by protecting them from competition and destroying innovation. The solution lies in a new laws that will strip FDA and FTC of their censorship powers. The solutions are the Freedom of Health Speech Act (H.R. 3394), the Health Freedom Act (H.R. 3395), and the Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act (H.R. 3396). View a summary of these bills Every generation is called upon to keep those in power from destroying our civil liberties. This is your chance to fight for freedom. We need every American who believes in the Constitution of the United States to rise and be heard, to support this bill, to help us get it passed at the earliest possible moment. Human lives and health are at stake. By helping support this cause you are making a difference, not just for your own health, not just for the health of all Americans, but for the health of generations to come. You are reasserting your inalienable rights to life and liberty. You are taking back the Constitution from those who will sacrifice it for political and financial gains. Follow this link to send an email to your Congressmen and Senators telling them to support the Freedom of Health Speech Act, the Health Freedom Act, and the Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act!   TELL CONGRESS YOU SUPPORT THESE BILLS NOW! BECOME A HEALTH FREEDOM ACTIVIST You can make a huge difference in this struggle for health freedom by becoming a Health Freedom Activist. A Health Freedom Activist (1) not only supports the Health Freedom Protection Act but also (2) takes steps to educate others using the Freedom on Trial DVD and the information we supply; (3) urges others to sign the e-letter above and send it to Congress; (4) forms groups who can be mobilized to protest in favor of the law, respond to requests for immediate emails to Congress during critical moments as the bill moves through Congress; and (5) distributes in heavily trafficked areas information about the bill and the need to support it. We can win! Call 888-783-7331 and ask for the Health Freedom Activist kit. The kit includes petitions that you can distribute to others at work, in health food stores, in pharmacies, and at grocery stores; a DVD Freedom on Trial concerning the struggle for health freedom that you, your family and friends can review; and more information on how we can all change the world for the better by ending FDA and FTC censorship. MAKE A FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIGHT TO PASS THESE BILLS Please help us finance this cause. The Liberty Committee has established a fund to help finance lobbying efforts to get this bill passed. Please make the highest dollar contribution you can to the Liberty Committee. Click Here to go to The Liberty Committee website   THANK YOU. ON TO VICTORY! HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS BEFORE THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 10, 2005 Free Speech and Dietary Supplements Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce the Health Freedom Protection Act. This bill restores the First Amendment rights of consumers to receive truthful information regarding the benefits of foods and dietary supplements by codifying the First Amendment standards used by federal courts to strike down the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) efforts to censor truthful health claims. The Health Freedom Protection Act also stops the Federal Trade Commissions (FTC) from censoring truthful health care claims. The American people have made it clear they do not want the federal government to interfere with their access to dietary supplements, yet the FDA and the FTC continue to engage in heavy-handed attempts to restrict such access. The FDA continues to frustrate consumers' efforts to learn how they can improve their health even after Congress, responding to a record number of constituents' comments, passed the Dietary Supplement and Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). FDA bureaucrats are so determined to frustrate consumer access to truthful information that they are even evading their duty to comply with four federal court decisions vindicating consumers' First Amendment rights to discover the health benefits of foods and dietary supplements. FDA bureaucrats have even refused to abide by the DSHEA section allowing the public to have access to scientific articles and publications regarding the role of nutrients in protecting against diseases by claiming that every article concerning this topic is evidence of intent to sell a drug. Because of the FDA's censorship of truthful health claims, millions of Americans may suffer with diseases and other health care problems they may have avoided by using dietary supplements. For example, the FDA prohibited consumers from learning how folic acid reduces the risk of neural tube defects for four years after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended every woman of childbearing age take folic acid supplements to reduce neural tube defects. This FDA action contributed to an estimated 10,000 cases of preventable neutral tube defects! The FDA also continues to prohibit consumers from learning about the scientific evidence that glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate are effective in the treatment of osteoarthritis; that omega-3 fatty acids may reduce the risk of sudden death heart attack; and that calcium may reduce the risk of bone fractures. The Health Freedom Protection Act will force the FDA to at last comply with the commands of Congress, the First Amendment, and the American people by codifying the First Amendment standards adopted by the federal courts. Specifically, the Health Freedom Protection Act stops the FDA from censoring truthful claims about the curative, mitigative, or preventative effects of dietary supplements, and adopts the federal court's suggested use of disclaimers as an alternative to censorship. The Health Freedom Protection Act also stops the FDA from prohibiting the distribution of scientific articles and publications regarding the role of nutrients in protecting against disease. This legislation also addresses the FTC's violations of the First Amendment. Under traditional First Amendment jurisprudence, the federal government bears the burden of proving an advertising statement false before censoring that statement. However, the FTC has reversed the standard in the case of dietary supplements by requiring supplement manufactures to satisfy an unobtainable standard of proof that their statement is true. The FTC's standards are blocking innovation in the marketplace. The Health Freedom Protection Act requires the government bear the burden of proving that speech could be censored. This is how it should be in a free, dynamic society. The bill also requires that the FTC warn parties that their advertising is false and give them a chance to correct their mistakes. Mr. Speaker, if we are serious about putting people in charge of their health care, then shouldn't we stop federal bureaucrats from preventing Americans from learning about simple ways to improve their health. I therefore call on my colleagues to stand up for good health care and the First Amendment by cosponsoring the Health Freedom Protection Act.