Raise Your Voice - We Don't Want Experimental Treatment Centers in MT
SB 535's hearing is on Wednesday, April 9th
SB 535, an extension of SB 422 from 2023, is wrong for Montana. What started out as a viable option for terminally ill patients (the original Right to Try bill), expanded to all patients having the right to access therapeutics that have passed Phase 1 safety trials in SB 422. Now, SB 535 continues to expand treatment well beyond disease and chronic ailments to “longevity” and lifespan extension. This is clear when one reads the consent, which states “patient’s desired health outcome.”
Here are our main concerns with the bill:
It does not require a MT physician to provide care
There is no ethics committee or IRB board (Institutional Review Board), which nearly every hospital that runs clinical trials are required to have
Longevity therapeutics, regenerative medicine and lifespan extension treatments frequently use human embryonic stem cells and gene editing, both run in opposition to Prolife and Creation viewpoints
There is no oversight board or restrictions to the type of experimentation the free-standing treatment centers can offer
Patients need to be referred by their treating physician, but as we have seen with this requirement for gender treatment, there are workarounds and “known advocates” who will always give a referral
Physicians, manufacturers, the facility and pharmacists are immune from liability unless there was gross negligence. Sound familiar? mRNA shot anyone?
This bill is too vague to be safe or ethical. It would have the least restrictive regulations for experimental treatment centers in the country. Please voice your concern to the House Human Services Committee this Wednesday, April 9th at 3pm. We need people to speak out. Legislators do not seem to understand the significance of this bill. And call your Representative and ask for a NO vote on SB 535.
