The Experience Miracles Podcast

How to Actually Take a Stand for Health Freedom—Starting at Home w/ Leah Wilson

Jul 4, 2025

Parental Rights in Healthcare: How to Advocate for Your Child’s Health Freedom

Episode 118, Experience Miracles Podcast | Host: Dr. Tony Ebel, DC, CACCP, Pediatric Chiropractor & Founder of PX Docs | Published: July 4, 2024 | Duration: 39 min

Guest: Leah Wilson, Co-Founder & CEO, Stand for Health Freedom

Key Takeaways

  • Parental rights in healthcare are real and legally protected, but parents frequently don’t know how to exercise them. Choosing a practitioner who aligns with your health philosophy and respects informed consent is one of the most consequential decisions a parent can make.
  • Stand for Health Freedom has secured 117+ policy wins by building a geographically targeted voting block of parents and advocates, and Harvard research shows that just 3.5% of the population standing up for an issue is the tipping point to shift national policy.
  • Over 1,300 health freedom candidates have been elected to office through Stand for Health Freedom’s voter guide program, driving the policy momentum now unfolding at the federal and state levels.
  • Fluoride in drinking water has no proven benefit from ingestion, the benefit is topical only. The EPA and federal courts are now acknowledging a documented IQ decline from fluoride exposure in infants and young children, and Florida banned water fluoridation statewide with Stand for Health Freedom’s support.
  • The nervous system and subluxation must be part of any honest conversation about chronic disease in children. No parent, pediatrician, or other healthcare provider can address subluxation, only a neurologically-focused chiropractor can. Any public health policy addressing autism and chronic illness that omits nervous system care is incomplete.

How Do Parents Actually Protect Their Child’s Health Freedom?

Parents hold more legal and philosophical authority over their child’s health decisions than most realize, but the medical system is not designed to remind them of it. According to Leah Wilson, co-founder of Stand for Health Freedom, the single most important move a parent can make is choosing a healthcare provider whose view of the body matches their own: one who believes the body is capable of healing, respects informed consent, and works in partnership with the family rather than over them.

The analogy Wilson uses is a football field. One goalpost is complete vitality and wholeness. The other is death. Most parents find themselves at the 50-yard line knowing something needs to change, but the direction you sprint matters more than the diagnosis you’ve been handed. Diagnoses, as she puts it, keep you where you are. They treat your current status quo rather than moving you toward healing. The practical implication: if your current doctor does not respect your health philosophy, you are not obligated to stay.

Dr. Tony Ebel adds the physics layer: you can only move in one direction at a time. Moving toward health means you are simultaneously moving away from sickness, fear, and dependency on systems that do not serve your child. Both parents who are motivated by running toward health and those who are running away from conventional medicine are moving in the same direction, and both deserve the resources, tools, and community to keep going.

What Are the Parental Rights Parents Don’t Know They Have? [00:01:30 – 00:04:59]

Leah Wilson: Do not question your instincts as a parent. Your child comes into the world with their own birthright, with you as their primary advocate, the one who cares uniquely about them for their long-term success without any ulterior motives. That is a position of immense power.

Navigating that power inside Big Medicine is not simple. In this world, experts are put on a pedestal. If you ever end up in a legal dispute over a medical decision for your child, it’s a licensed specialist from inside the medical system who will be called in to testify about what is and is not negligent. That context matters for how you carry yourself inside medical settings.

The most important right parents have is the right to choose their practitioner. When you’re in the emergency system because your child has broken a bone or needs acute care, understand why you are there: to respect authority in that setting and to graciously say yes and no without appearing inflamed or reactive. The moment you seem upset over a medical decision, red flags go up about whether you are a fit parent. Calm, informed, and firm is the posture.

“Your child comes into the world with their own birthright, with you as their primary advocate, the one that cares uniquely about them for their long-term success without any ulterior motives.”

Dr. Tony Ebel: The number of families we hear from who have encountered medical kidnapping, that’s a term I hate using, but if nobody says it, who will, is real. We are not sharing this to scare anyone. We are sharing it to arm you, equip you, resource you, and come alongside you. You have what God gave you. You are your child’s fiercest, strongest, most intelligent advocate. Your child is pre-programmed to be healthy. And you have us.

When you are inside the hospital system, they may simultaneously be saving your child’s life while you need to prevent your child from being further embedded into the system. Both things can exist at the same time. The parent who is informed, calm, and strong is exactly what their child needs in that moment.

How to Choose Healthcare Providers That Align with Your Values [00:09:30 – 00:11:59]

Leah Wilson: People ask us constantly, “How do I find a provider who will let me make decisions?” If you are in a healthcare relationship where the doctor does not respect your choices, that is one you need to leave. Change is hard when you’ve built a relationship inside a system, but making that leap is worth it.

My eight-year-old son Samuel was sitting next to me when a drug commercial came on with a long list of side effects. He said, “Mom, I would never touch that.” The reason an eight-year-old has that conviction is because he already knows there are options. He doesn’t feel stuck. When you feel stuck, you go looking for resources, but when you know options exist, you can pursue the one that aligns with your goals and deeply held beliefs.

Dr. Tony Ebel: Is there anything that changes families’ lives more than choosing a different doctor? A doctor who provides informed consent, who takes the time to educate and empower you, who works in partnership with you? That single decision changes everything. You are interviewing practitioners. You have that right.

“If you understand that there are options, then you can pursue one that aligns with your desires, goals, and deeply held beliefs and what is best for you and your children.”

Getting Involved: Practical Steps for Health Freedom Advocacy [00:12:00 – 00:16:59]

Leah Wilson: Stand for Health Freedom exists to make it easy to identify where the battles are, share them with people who are positioned to make a difference, and take targeted action. The most important first step is joining at StandForHealthFreedom.com.

When you get an email from us, read it. Most of the time there is an action alert, you click and take action. That action is geo-restricted to be relevant to you specifically: as a US citizen, as a resident of your state, or even as a resident of your district. That precision is what makes our voting block powerful. It’s what has allowed us to secure 117 and counting policy wins.

Once you’re taking action, share those alerts with people you care about. During voting season, engage with the Vote for Health Freedom voter guide. Over 1,300 health freedom candidates are now in office because listeners like you voted them in. When the right people are in office, the conversations that need to happen can happen in the halls of government.

Dr. Tony Ebel: I have to be honest. I have been an absolute turd in the game of advocacy for a long time, not for lack of caring, but because it was so complicated. I would take a step or two forward and not know what the next step was. Other organizations existed but the work was hard and I was buried in other work that also mattered. What Stand for Health Freedom did was make it easy. Get on the list. Read the emails. Click the action. That’s it.

The Unexpected Political Moment: How We Got Here [00:17:00 – 00:20:59]

Dr. Tony Ebel: I have been in these circles, Cal Jam, natural health seminars, the chiropractic world, for a long time. I got to meet and know RFK Jr., Del Bigtree, Joe Dispenza, Joe Mercola. Every single one of those people is real: heart, soul, conviction, compassion, and brilliance. And I believed the whole time that the work we were all doing was quantifiable and making a real impact.

But I also felt the limitation. There would be 3,000 of us at a seminar and I’d be mad that there wasn’t 3 million of us. Had you told me 10 months before recording this that the people I know who know the truth would be in positions of power at the federal level, actively working to reverse chronic disease in our kids, I would have told you to stop. Even me, the eternal optimist, would have said no way.

And now God has said, “Wrong, Tony, this is happening.” What I’m realizing is that every single one of us in this movement did the same thing the whole time: we gave the voice and the choice back to parents. That’s all we ever wanted to do. This is not about what any one person has done. It is a parent-driven movement.

“It isn’t about what he’s done or we’ve done. It’s about what parents collectively, unified, have done. It’s a parent-driven movement.”

The 3.5% Tipping Point: Why the Health Freedom Movement Is Winning [00:21:00 – 00:25:59]

Leah Wilson: Since the inception of Stand for Health Freedom, we have been beating a drum: if we can get 3.5% of people standing up for this issue, we will not fail. That’s what the research shows. Harvard research shows that 3.5% is the tipping point to shift the tide. Our goal was 11.5 million Americans, and I truly believe we are now there.

We are positioned, thanks to parents who used their voice and moved this story forward, to operationalize the change we’ve been working toward. That means undoing broken systems and using our collective voice continually for policy changes that will outlive the current administration. The window of light is open and we need to use it.

Part of what makes this moment significant is the shift in institutional honesty. In 2016, documents were uncovered showing top CDC officials, who were former VP’s at Coca-Cola, colluding to prop up research blaming lack of movement for childhood obesity while burying research showing sugary drinks fueled it. Now we have a Secretary of Health saying plainly that sugar fuels obesity and that government agencies should not be padding the pockets of food corporations. That is a direct, documented contrast. Transparency is the entire key.

Dr. Tony Ebel: The answer to chronic disease in our children cannot be compartmentalized. It has to include ultrasound, maternal distress, birth trauma, subluxation, and nervous system dysregulation, not just toxins. A complete answer is what parents and their children deserve.

Lessons from COVID and Pandemic Preparedness [00:26:00 – 00:32:59]

Leah Wilson: The most aggressive round of mandates in our history was also the worst thing ever done to our culture, and it woke everybody up. They overplayed it.

Dr. Tony Ebel: I remember gathering my team in March 2020. Everybody was in crisis and fight-or-flight. I told them: “This is going to really suck for a season. We support each other right now. We pour into our patients right now. We educate them, empower them, provide informed choice, and adjust them right now. But it is time to triple down.” I drew it on the whiteboard: “They will overplay this. The ship is already going under.”

What I saw coming was parents waking up to Big Medicine. Millions of parents were already leaning toward the goalpost of health, COVID just shoved them in that direction. What I did not see coming was the policy change at positions of power and influence. That one got me. I’m grateful to God because it is pure opportunity for impact.

Leah Wilson: Your individual state is where you will have the biggest impact. Your state is in charge of your public health and welfare by a large margin. Getting involved where you live and protecting those walls, starting at home, is the primary function of government as it was designed. We need to see states pandemic-proofed because another pandemic will come. It’s too big and too lucrative a playbook. You’ve got to study what worked the last time, deconstruct it, and reconstruct the truth in its place.

The American Academy of Pediatrics is signaling their panic right now. Pediatricians report that every well visit now takes an additional 15 minutes to convince parents that vaccines are safe. Parents are asking questions. Parents are declining. The truth is winning, not because we destroyed anything, but because we allowed people to see the truth and choose it.

Fluoride Victory: A Case Study in People Power [00:33:00 – 00:35:59]

Leah Wilson: Today we are launching a national campaign to get fluoride out of the water because of the recipe for success we built in Florida. In Florida, we got fluoride out of 24 towns and counties. Then Miami-Dade took up the torch. Their commissioners voted eight to two to stop fluoridation. The mayor vetoed it. Then Florida passed a state law, with Stand for Health Freedom’s support, banning water fluoridation statewide. Miami-Dade’s commissioners brought it back for a vote, overrode the mayor’s veto, and said: “We’re going to listen to the people.” Is there anything more American than that?

Dr. Tony Ebel: Fluoride has been added to drinking water for decades. The research does not show any benefit from ingesting it, the benefit is topical, from putting it directly on teeth. The EPA and the latest federal court cases are now formally acknowledging a documented IQ decline in infants and young children from fluoride exposure. Industry money is the only thing propping up opposition to this. When the first domino falls, it builds momentum for the next. That’s what we’ve been fighting for.

The Nervous System Must Be in the Conversation [00:36:00 – 00:39:00]

Dr. Tony Ebel: This is the one thing I know for sure, God put me here to enter these conversations and bring informed choice, education, awareness, and action. But if there is a crosshairs for my laser focus, it is the nervous system and subluxation.

What we see every single day in clinic is this: families have found their voice, changed their lifestyle, removed toxins, done so many things right, and there is still something left. That something is subluxation. There is nothing any parent can do themselves about subluxation. There is nothing any pediatrician or any other professional can do about subluxation. Only Neurologically-Focused Chiropractic Care addresses it.

So when the report on autism and chronic illness comes out, it must include a conversation about subluxation and nervous system balance. Any answer that omits that is not a complete answer. And I believe that “nervous system balance” is already trending, on TikTok, in culture, in the national conversation. The public education we’ve done through this podcast and in clinics across the country has pushed the nervous system into that conversation.

Leah Wilson: Without a doubt. I’d say 50% of change comes from public education, and I think it’s closer to 90%. You don’t just treat patients and send them home. You empower them to understand the body, to understand physiology, neurology, and nervous system balance. That public education is the core of everything we’ve been fighting for.

“In these public health policies and in these answers that are put forth, we need to make sure the answers are complete, and they will not be complete without that conversation, without nervous system balance.”

Frequently Asked Questions

What parental rights do I have when it comes to my child’s healthcare?

As a parent, you have the legal and moral right to make healthcare decisions for your child, including the right to say yes and no to any treatment or procedure. According to Leah Wilson of Stand for Health Freedom, this includes the right to choose any practitioner you want, not just those within a conventional medical system. When inside a hospital or emergency setting, remain calm and respectful, but know you can decline recommendations. The key is understanding your rights before you’re in a crisis situation.

How do I find a doctor who respects my right to make decisions for my child?

Start by identifying your own health philosophy. Do you believe the body is capable of healing? Do you want a practitioner who works in partnership with you rather than over you? If your current provider does not provide informed consent, does not educate you, and does not respect your choices, that is a provider you are not obligated to stay with. Stand for Health Freedom’s website offers resources for identifying aligned providers. For nervous system-focused pediatric care, use the PX Docs Directory to find a Neurologically-Focused Chiropractor near you.

What is Stand for Health Freedom and how do I get involved?

Stand for Health Freedom is a nonprofit advocacy organization that has secured 117+ policy wins for parental rights, medical freedom, and health transparency. Harvard research shows that just 3.5% of the population actively engaging on an issue is enough to shift national policy, and Stand for Health Freedom has built that voting block. Join at StandForHealthFreedom.com, read every action alert email you receive, and participate in the Vote for Health Freedom voter guide during election season.

Why is fluoride in drinking water a concern for children?

The benefit of fluoride is topical, it works by being applied directly to teeth. There is no demonstrated benefit from ingesting it. The EPA and federal courts are now formally acknowledging a documented IQ decline in infants and young children exposed to fluoride in drinking water. Florida, with support from Stand for Health Freedom, passed a statewide ban on water fluoridation in 2024. A national campaign to remove fluoride from water systems is now underway.

What does the nervous system have to do with autism and chronic illness?

According to Dr. Tony Ebel, subluxation, dysfunction in the spine that disrupts nervous system signaling, is a root cause contributor to many chronic childhood conditions, including autism and ADHD. Unlike dietary changes, toxin removal, or other interventions, subluxation cannot be addressed by parents themselves or by any conventional medical provider. Only Neurologically-Focused Chiropractic Care addresses it directly. Dr. Ebel argues that any public health policy on autism and chronic illness that omits subluxation and nervous system balance from the conversation is providing an incomplete answer.

How do I find a PX Docs chiropractor near me?

You can search the full directory of Neurologically-Focused Chiropractors trained in Dr. Tony Ebel’s protocols. These practitioners are trained to assess and address nervous system dysregulation and subluxation in children using INSiGHT Scans and neuro-tonal adjustments, care specifically designed for infants and children dealing with chronic conditions.

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