The “Sunshine Health Freedom Foundation State Coordinator Program” is making great progress in its efforts to support health freedom efforts across the country!
SHFF State Coordinatorsand Nature’s Sunshine distributors have been very active in their efforts to participate in health freedom activities in their state. These efforts have profoundly contributed to the strength of the health freedom movement! Eight states now protect consumer access to herbalists, traditional naturopaths, and a host of other unlicensed health care practitioners, including Oklahoma, Idaho, Minnesota, Rhode Island, California, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Arizona (limited exemption passed in Arizona in 2008). Twenty additional states have introduced legislation to protect consumer access to unlicensed practitioners under safe harbor health freedom exemption laws. More states are preparing for the future.
State health freedom organizations work to pass criminal exemption and safe harbor laws to protect consumer access to all health care practitioners. Keeping in place avenues of recourse and truthful information to consumers, these new safe harbor laws protect the rights of natural health practitioners to practice their trades without mandatory state medical licensing. The safe harbor laws also aid in preventing arbitrary disciplines, criminal sanctions, or civil fines. Access to traditional naturopaths, homeopaths, herbalists, energy workers, and many more is now being protected in states that have successfully passed these new types of laws, and consumer access to these practitioners is being preserved.
When states change at this core level, it opens minds and hearts and causes a ripple effect, and contributes to the healing of the federal and international situations as well. The following is a brief update on state groups that have been actively working on legislative issues for health freedom in the past year:
If you are interested in being a state coordinator, please contact Sunshine Health Freedom Foundation:
