Andy Biggs and Brian Fitzpatrick: America needs the Right to Try, before it’s too late

By Andy Biggs, brian-fitzpatrick

Published March 7, 2018 9:56pm ET

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Andy Biggs and Brian Fitzpatrick: America needs the Right to Try, before it’s too late — The Right to Try Act allows terminally ill patients who have exhausted all other options to try medications that have passed basic Food and Drug Administration safety protocols but not completed the full, multiyear approval process. Such legislation has received overwhelming support nationally, becoming law in 38 states. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) | Rick Bowmer

Each year, millions of Americans are diagnosed with terminal illnesses. These people are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, grandpas and grandmas. More than anything else, these individuals hope to determine their own future.

One thing these people don’t have is time.

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