🥹⚕️Big Pharma, Big Business, and Big Hospital DID NOT WIN in Idaho... Idahoans Won!
Idaho citizens and all interested in medical freedom: Please share this message.
🥹⚕️🥹⚕️Big Pharma, Big Business, and Big Hospital DID NOT WIN in Idaho... Idahoans Won!
(posted 03/29/25, updated 03/30/25, 04/01/25, 04/02/25, 04/03/25, 04/04/25, 04/05/25, 04/06/25, 04/15/25, 05/02/25, 05/03/25)
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The 2025 Idaho Legislative Session ended Friday, April 4, 2025 with a SHOT THAT WILL BE HEARD AROUND THE WORLD.
After decades of effort, many revisions, thousands of phone calls, countless emails, long days, late nights, and excruciating drama, Idaho’s legislature passed and Governor Brad Little signed the nation’s first true medical freedom bill: S1210aa,aaH - Medical Freedom Act.
— IDAHO S1210 - MEDICAL FREEDOM ACT —
This bill can be a model for other U.S. states and the world!
Please call and write Idaho Governor Brad Little to thank him for signing this bill!
Phone: (208) 334-2100 | Email: governor@gov.idaho.gov
S1210 Key Provisions
S1210, the Idaho Medical Freedom Act, broadly prohibits various entities from mandating medical interventions or discriminating against anyone based on their medical treatment choices. The Medical Freedom Act…
Defines:
Medical intervention: A medical procedure, treatment, device, drug, injection, medication, or medical action taken to diagnose, prevent, or cure a disease or alter the health or biological function of a person.
School: Any public, private, or parochial preschool; any kindergarten, elementary, or secondary school; any postsecondary institute of education, including trade schools, colleges, and universities; or any other institute of primary, secondary, or higher learning operating in Idaho.
Applies to businesses, schools, ticket issuers, and government entities.
Prevents organizations from refusing services, employment, or access to venues based on a person’s medical intervention status.
Restricts employers from requiring medical interventions as a condition of employment.
Exceptions: Limited circumstances involving international travel or where personal protective equipment, items, or clothing are required based on existing traditional and accepted industry standards or federal law.
Exceptions shall not apply to or include any vaccines, mask requirements, or other medical interventions introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prohibits offering different compensation based on medical intervention status.
Bars schools from mandating medical interventions for attendance or employment.
Explicitly states that no healthy person can be excluded during a disease outbreak due to vaccination status.
Includes enforcement mechanisms, allowing the attorney general or county prosecutors to pursue legal action against entities that violate these provisions.
Takes effect July 1, 2025.
What Happened in a Nutshell
🚨On 04/04/25 Idaho S1210 - Medical Freedom Act PASSED and was SIGNED by Governor Brad Little. It had everything the governor, the bill’s authors, an army of dedicated medical freedom advocates wanted, and Idahoans need — with the possible exceptions of legalese statements regarding “unless required by federal law” and the exclusion described just below:
Section 4, item 9:
“The prohibition on medical interventions shall not apply to any situation where personal protective equipment, items, or clothing are required by a business entity in the public or private sectors based on existing traditional and accepted industry standards or federal law. These exemptions to the prohibition on medical interventions shall not apply to or include any vaccines, mask requirements, or other medical interventions introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
So hospitals and clinics in Idaho may continue to mandate some interventions as a condition of employment under the “accepted industry standards or federal law.” But, industry standards and federal law may change with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services.
📌Note: S1210 replaced two similar bills: H0472 (held in Senate State Affairs committee) and S1023 (passed both houses, vetoed by Governor).
S1210 References
→ Bill: S1210. Read the bill. See who voted for and against it. Check out the amendments and history to get an inkling of how much effort went into this bill.
Special thanks to Republican legislators Sen. Dan Foreman (LD-6) for leading S1210 through the Senate, Rep. Rob Beiswenger (LD-8) for leading it through the House, and House leadership Reps. Mike Moyle (LD-10), Jason Monks (LD-22), and Josh Tanner (LD-14) for running a second bill in defiance of the veto.
→ Idaho S1210 — The First Legislation in America Banning Medical Mandates: Leslie Manookian on American Thought Leaders (04/30/25, podcast/video 00:31:00)
→ 🔥🆕 Article: The Idaho Medical Freedom Law Passed — But a Key Protection Almost Didn’t. Behind the scenes, there was a push to carve out daycares. Now, a court case will determine whether those protections hold — A message from the Gang of 8. By ZITO FOR IDAHO - Senator Christy Zito (05/02/25)
Don’t miss this one!
→ Article: BREAKING: Idaho Becomes First State to Ban All Medical Mandates. By We the Patriots USA. Describes the bill, the exceptions, and a related court case, Tipton v. New Horizons Academy.
→ Article: Gov. Little Signs Amended Medical Freedom Act. By Greg Pruett, Idaho Dispatch. Good summary of the back and forth and final result.
→ Article: Sine Die 2025. By Brian Almon. Discusses S1210 and an anti-DEI bill that passed on the very last day (sine die) of the 2025 Idaho legislature.
→ Editorial: Medical Freedom Is Why We Live in Idaho. By Blaine County Republican Central Committee chair Heather Lauer (District 26). Praises bill author and medical freedom advocate Leslie Manookian (Blaine County, ID, resident) and Rep. Mike Pohanka (R-LD26) who strongly supported S1210. Criticizes Sen. Ron Taylor (D-LD26) and Rep. Jack Nelsen (R-LD26) who unrelentingly opposed the bill.
He signed it! Governor Brad Little signed S1210, Idaho’s Historic Medical Freedom Act Bill — the first in the Country
Leslie Manookian, Sarah Clendenon, and Miste Karlfeldt celebrate the hard earned victory of the passage of Idaho's Medical Freedom Act. Idaho now has the most health freedom laws in the nation.
Thank you to all who worked tirelessly to get this passed so all Idahoans can enjoy their God given right of bodily autonomy which is now supported by Idaho law.
S1210 has everything the governor and the bill’s author wanted and everything Idahoans need — with the possible exception of statements regarding “unless required by federal law.”
→ IDAHO: NO MANDATES VICTORY - HOW THEY DID IT!! Host Curtis Cost. Idaho Guests: Laura Demaray, Miste Karlfeldt, Doug Cameron, Rep. Rob Beiswenger. Panel: Alix Mayer, Laraine Abbey Katzev, James Thorp, MD. (04/14/25, video 1:05:43)
There was a time, when Idaho could be called a red state. Unfortunately, Idaho like Texas, Montana, Oregon and others inherited an influx of liberals from mostly California who were fleeing the mess they themselves helped to create and have now brought it to these states and others. I do hope Idahoans are successful in repealing this. As for my beautiful state, the influx of liberals started back in the early 90's and is lost. The democrats have been in control of our government for 38 yrs. Unfortunately, you can be assured that most politicians and doctors are bought and paid for by big pharma. There is a website where you can look up even your own doctor to see how much big pharma is paying them. Some lookups are miniscule and then there are those like one of my own doctors is receiving over $100,000 a year. I can give you the website. It always comes down to $$/greed.
This makes my stomach turn. I see nothing in this bill that stops schools from sending home a sick child. Override this veto!