Why we shouldn’t try “Right to Try”

Bentley Davis
4 min readFeb 6, 2018

In Trump’s 2018 State of the Union, he urged Congress to pass the legislation euphemistically called “Right to Try” allowing terminal patients to take drugs or pursue experimental treatments in the early experimental stages. While this sounds like a great idea because no one wants to deny a patient hope, there are serious problems with the legislation as written.

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