Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed legislation on April 4th entitled Idaho Medical Freedom Act (Senate Bill 1210) that bans businesses and schools from requiring customers, employees, and students to receive vaccines or other medical procedures.

The act requires that a business “shall not refuse to provide any service, product, admission to a venue, or transportation to a person because that person has or has not received or used a medical intervention” and it requires that a school “shall not mandate a medical intervention for any person to attend, enter campus or buildings, or be employed.” It also prevents state, county, and local governments from requiring a person to have medical intervention unless required under federal law, .

State Rep. Todd Achilles, a Democrat, was one of the bill’s opponents, claimed the act “remains deeply flawed,” primarily because the definition of medical intervention in it is “overly broad.”

Leslie Manookian, president and founder of Health Freedom Defense Fund, assisted lawmakers in crafting the legislation and said upon its passing: “Medical freedom is a basic and fundamental human right, and the Idaho Medical Freedom Act sets a powerful precedent not only for our state but for the entire country."

Great work, Health Freedom Defense Fund and Idaho! This is a model for all the States and the Federal government to follow.