The Highwire with Del Bigtree - RFK JR, HHS, ALIGN WITH PARENTAL CONSENT

Episode Date: December 15, 2025

Leave a ReplyLeave a Reply You must Register or Login to post a comment.A major shift in federal policy is emerging as HHS moves to strengthen parental rights, religious exemptions, and informed consent in children’s medical decisions. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the Office of Civil Rights is investigating reports of a child with a religious exemption being vaccinated without parental consent. At the same time, several states are pushing bills that would allow minors to be vaccinated without their parents’ knowledge, highlighting a broader medical-system struggle—from childhood shots to psychiatric drugs for veterans—over consent, transparency, and personal autonomy.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

You look at mandatory vaccinations. You look at the recommended childhood schedule, what's the opposite side? It looks like it may be going in a little different direction. Well, the opposite of that, we know this here very well at ICANN is informed consent, it's parental choice. And we had Kennedy come out and do something recently that we seem to be in somewhat alignment with, and he's fortifying the strength of the religious exemption. Take a listen.

a parent's right to guide their child's health decisions. That right is not optional. It's not negotiable, and under the Trump administration, it will not be ignored. HHS has launched an investigation into a troubling incident in the Midwest. A school administered a federally funded vaccine to a child without the parent's consent and despite a legally recognized state exemption. When any institution, a school, a doctor's office, a clinic disregards a religious exemption, it doesn't just break trust. It also breaks the law. It fractures the sacred bond between

families and the people entrusted with their child's care. In addition, our Office for Civil Rights has the issued a letter reminding health care providers of their clear legal duty to give parents access to their children's medical records. If a provider stands between you and your child, HHS is going to step in. Let me be clear. Schools and health care systems cannot sideline parents. If a provider ignores consent, violates an exemption,

or keeps parents in the dark, HHS will act quickly and decisively. That's what I'm talking about. Fantastic. And, you know, in the age of social media where things kind of scroll off the screen, I hope the public realizes how big of a deal this is. And even looking at this HHS memo that was put out this press release, just this headline alone, HHS protects parents' rights in children's health decisions.

This is massive. And as he said here, I'm going to read from this. It says HHS has opened an investigation into a complaint that a Midwestern school illegally vaccinated a child with a federally provided vaccine without the parent's consent by ignoring a religious exemption submitted under a state law so you want to kind of bridge these two gaps here essentially the u.s. government is now seeing religious rights as a civil right because you have this next letter here goes in line also with what Kennedy is saying from the office of civil rights and this is what it's falling under it's titled the hippa privacy rule and parents access to minor children's medical

records so that is also a right for for parents and maybe for some of the public that's watching this or some of the viewers, they say, this isn't happening. What are you talking about? Maybe that's just one-off case. Well, here's a bill in New York that's going through committee trying to get passed into law. This is S-1570. There's been many bills like this that we've covered on the show. And I'm going to read from this. It says the new section, so it amends public health law, but it says the new section authorizes health care practitioners to administer vaccinations to minors who are at least 14 years of age without their parents' knowledge or consent. So parents are done. according to that so you have a federal you have federal rules and you have the federal leanings

towards parental consent putting parents rights at the at the front of the class here and then obviously you have states that are going a bit of a different direction so it'll be interesting to see how this fight turns out 2026 but it's not just vaccinations it's all drugs it's all medications informed consent reigns king and this is what we're seeing for our service veterans this is a a headline here. Vets say psychiatric drug risks are often overlooked. A new law could change that. This is called the Written Consent Act. It will require signed consent from veterans who acknowledge the side effects and risk of prescribed antipsychotics, stimulants, antidepressants, angioletics, and narcotics. And as we know, the harms, we're still finding out the harms from the SSRIs.

We're still finding out the harms, the addiction properties from the narcotics, like opioids. So, and a lot of veterans, they just dole this out at the VAs, these drugs. A lot of veterans are not really given informed consent on this. And they're finding out the hard way after, you know, they have to deal with addiction, things like that. So informed consent is where it's at. And I want to say, I want to end with this. This is actually some, a life lesson.

It says, Whoopi Goldberg from the view showing that the long road into the wilderness of the vision always comes out with absolute truth. Take a listen. All right. Why should any of these people be in these jobs? They're not qualified for them. Why have we, as Americans, not stood up and said, excuse me, RFK, why are you telling me what to do with my family?

Mind your business. It should be the whole. I have a doctor. I have a doctor. I have myself. This is my family. And if I want my kid to get vaccinated, that's not up to you. I think Robert K.

That's right. completely agree with her. I mean, it just shows you, like, have you ever watched one of these meetings, Whoopi? That's exactly what Robert Kennedy just did. He just said, the government shouldn't be telling you what to do with this vaccine, especially if you are negative as a mother. You should have the right to choose and have the conversation with your doctor. It'd be nice. Maybe Whoopi, does she just sit at home and watch reruns of her own show? Is that the thought bubble she's living in? It's absolutely incredible, close-minded. I can't believe people. sit and watch that show. I've tried. You can literally just feel your intelligence being sucked right through your eyeballs.