- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:34 PM
Subject: Healing Modalities
Dear Friends,
There is a bill in committee to restrict alternative healing modalities.
If you are a practitioner or recipient (consumer) of the following healing
modalities this bill affects YOU, as A8704 states:
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: accupressure, asian healing practices;
Anthroposophy (Rudolph Steiner methods); Cranial Sacral Therapy; culturally
traditional healing practices; detoxification practices and therapies;
energetic healing; flower essences; folk practices; Gerson Therapy; Healing
practices utilizing food, food supplements; nutrients and physical forces of
heat, cold, water, color,
touch, and light; healing-related kinesiology; Healing Touch; Hellerwork;
hergology or herbalixm; homeopathy; Iridology; Jin Shin Therapy; Mind-Body
Healing practices; naturopathy; polarity therapy; Qi Gong; reflexology;
Reiki; Rolfing; Shiatsu; Trager Approach; Heawlth; Tuina; Yoga; or any
combination of such practices.
In addition to the drawbacks of this legislation as listed below, please
be aware that the bill, A8704, clearly states that this state legislation
supercedes U.S. constitutional protections and rights guaranteed by the 5th
Amendment under U.S. law if a complaint is received against any healer
using
an unlicensed healing modality (sic, see above list). Also, the
Commissioner may issue an ORDER DIRECTING THE PRACTITIONER TO SUBMIT TO A
MENTAL OR PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OR CHEMICAL DEPENDANCY EVALUATION.
In other words, if A8704 is passed into law, NY State spiritual and other
unlicensed
healers (including priests, nuns, ministers who do laying on of hands
healing) may be forced to surrender the privacy of their medical records
and
to submit to forced medical examinations in the case of any complaint made
against them to the state regarding non medical healing modalities which do
not harm!!
We need calls (today and tomorrow especially) to Assemblyman Ed Sullivan's
Albany office regarding bill A8704, especially if you know anyone in his
upper west side district (and they can call his Manhattan office numbers).
Callers should politely state their names, give an address, if asked,
(especially important if they are constituents) and state their opposition
to the bill as unlicensed healers and/or consumers.
The bill A8704 is presently in the Higher Education Committee which Ed
Sullivan chairs. His telephone in Albany is: 1518-455-5603.
If you have ever done a Sun Salutation or enjoyed a massage, please call.
Thanks.
I send you all blessings for health, vitality and peace.
xxMama Donna
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