U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Right to try establishes that Americans and not bureaucrats decide about trying a potentially life-saving drug.

The kickback scheme created by the “safe harbor” is directly responsible for drug shortages and price hikes because it has destroyed the economic incentive to produce many critical life-saving medicines.

Pennsylvania, one of the first colonies-turned-states to declare unalienable a person’s right to life, must act soon to avoid becoming one of the last states to secure for terminally ill patients the right to try to save their own lives.