Informed Life Radio: Turning Medical Freedom Advocacy Into Law
(October 9, 2026)
Ep. 387:
Passing medical-freedom legislation takes more than having the right message—it takes organization, legislative champions, persistence, and an understanding of the political environment. Jackie Schlegel, founder and executive director of Texans for Medical Freedom, joins us to share how her organization built a grassroots network of 100,000 Texans and helped turn several medical-freedom priorities into law.
We look at Texas’s recent prohibition on private-employer Covid shot mandates, new informed-consent requirements for Covid vaccination, protections against organ-transplant discrimination based on vaccination status, and expanded parental-rights protections in public schools. Then we get practical: How do you choose bills worth fighting for? Find effective legislative sponsors? Mobilize ordinary citizens? Respond to powerful medical and pharmaceutical lobbying? And keep moving when your legislature is not as receptive as that in Texas?
Washington advocates operate in a very different political environment, so we can’t just try to copy Texas. We ask instead which strategies can translate across state lines, which must be adapted, and how voters can identify candidates who genuinely understand informed consent and medical autonomy. Voters can also consult Stand for Health Freedom’s voter guide for documented candidate information:
https://standforhealthfreedom.com/vote/
Resources:
https://texansformedicalfreedom.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/texasmedicalfreedom
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/texansformedicalfreedom
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/texans-for-medical-freedom/?viewAsMember=true
Twitter/X: https://x.com/TxforMedFreedom
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TexansForMedicalFreedom
Washington Voter Guide from Stand for Health Freedom: https://standforhealthfreedom.com/guides/wavotes/
*The opinions expressed by the hosts and guests in this show are not necessarily the views of Children’s Health Defense.