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Alliance for Human Research Protection

Alliance for Human Research Protection

Advancing Voluntary, Informed Consent to Medical Intervention
  • About
    • Mission Statement
    • Board of Directors
    • Distinguished Advisory Board
    • Honor Roll–Exemplary Professionals
    • Contact
    • Subscribe to the AHRP Mailing List
    • Donate
    • Videos
  • Medical Ethics
    • “First, do no Harm”
    • Human Rights
    • Informed Consent
    • Nuremberg Code
  • Eugenics / Bioethics
    • Gene Modification
    • Corrupt Public Health
    • Racialized Science
    • Medicalized Racism
  • Corrupted Science
    • Bias/Fraud
    • Propaganda – Censorship
    • Clinical Trials
    • Concealed Data
    • Public-Private Partnerships
    • Pharma Corrupt Influence
    • Publication Bias
  • Medical Atrocities
    • Current Medical Atrocities
    • Japanese Atrocities
    • Nazi Atrocities
    • Operation Paperclip
    • CIA Mind-Control
    • CIA Torture
    • U.S. Radiation Experiments
    • Unethical Experiments
  • Current Controversies
    • Apartheid Policies
    • Coronavirus Fear
    • Covid Pandemic
    • Epidemics
    • Government Overreach
  • Vaccines
    • Vaccine Mandates
    • Vaccine Risks
    • Vaccine Safety

AHRP Distinguished Advisory Board

Elizabeth Mumper
MD, FAAP, IFMCP
Peter Eichacker
MD
Edward F. Fogerty, III
MD
Allan S Cunningham, MD Cunningham
MD
Dianne N. Irving, PhD Irving
Bose Ravenel
MD, FAAP
Alvin H Moss
MD, Professor
Antonietta M. Gatti
Ph.D.
Sidney M. Baker
MD
Cammy R. Benton
MD
Carol Stott
Ph.D., Clinical Psych.
Nancy Banks
MD
Christiane Northrup
MD
Christopher Exley
Ph.D., Professor
David Brownstein
MD, Pediatrician
Garth Nicholson
Ph.D.
Nicole Delépine
MD
Gerárd Delépine
MD
Gayle DeLong
Ph.D.
Hendrieka Fitzpatrick
MD
Howard Morningstar
MD
James Lyons-Weiler
Ph.D.
Kelly Sutton
MD, Internist
Kenneth P. Stoller
MD, FACHM
Manuel F. Casanova
MD, Professor
Paul Thomas
MD, Pediatrician
Philip Incao
MD
Prachi Garodia
MD, Internist
Prashanthi Atluri
MD
Richard Moskowitz
MD
Sandy Reider
MD
Sin Hang Lee
MD FRCP (C)
Stephanie Seneff
Ph.D. MIT
Tiffany Baer
MD, Internist
Christopher Shaw
Ph.D., Professor
Jacob Puliyel
MD, MRCP
Kenneth Saul
MD
James (Jim) Meehan
MD
Melanie Gisler
DO
John Oller
Ph.D.

AHRP Board Member’s Recent Posts, Testimonies, Publications

07. 2020. COVID19: Three Bits of Science That CDC, Fauci and FDA Forgot, and One They Would Like to Forget , James Lyons-Weiler

07. 2020. A Novel Approach to Treating COVID-19 Using Nutritional and Oxidative Therapies , David Brownstein , Science, Public Health Policy & the Law

06. 2020. Gresham's Law and the Covid Pandemic , Jacob Puliyel , Sunday Guardian (India)

06. 2020. WHO trial using potentially fatal hydroxychloroquine dose--according to WHO consultant , Meryl Nass

05. 2020. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Corrupt, coordinated assault managed by WHO on an inexpensive and effective treatment / Nass , Meryl Nass

03. 2020. Coronavirus Pandemic: Is It Time to Wind Down the Rhetoric? , Jacob Puliyel , The Wire

03. 2020. An important proposal that ameliorates our lack of protective equipment and spares both patients and healthcare workers , Meryl Nass , Anthrax Vaccine

02. 2020. Proposed School Exclusion Bad for America’s Kids, Doctors and Educators Say , Jennifer Margulis

02. 2020. Education: An Open Letter on Exemptions , Edward F. Fogerty, III

02. 2020. Protecting Yourself from Covid-19 , Meryl Nass

02. 2020. The Jig Is Up , Richard Moskowitz

06. 2019. Truth in Research Labelling , John Noble, Jr. , Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

04. 2019. Missing, hidden and destroyed adverse event data. Who vaccinates? , Meryl Nass

03. 2019. Whither Cochrane? , Meryl Nass , Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

03. 2019. A sample of vaccine and injectable medication tragedies in the US during my lifetime , Meryl Nass

03. 2019. The Skinny on Pertussis, Vaccines and Enforced Mandates , Meryl Nass

03. 2019. My testimony on vaccine exemptions to the Maine joint Education and Cultural Affairs Committee , Meryl Nass

03. 2019. Indisputable: CDC is not making prudent vaccine recommendations , Meryl Nass

03. 2019. OP-ED: Why Americans don’t trust vaccine makers , Meryl Nass

01. 2019. Measles: Two U.S. Outbreaks are Blamed on Low Vaccination Rates, Another Perspective , Meryl Nass , British Medical Journal

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Nora Coffey

Nora CoffeyNora Coffey is a prominent women’s health advocate, activist and educator who founded the Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation in 1982. The foundation is the only independent nonprofit organization solely dedicated to the alternatives to and aftermath of hysterectomy.

In 1978, Nora Coffey, then in her mid-thirties, had surgery which sent shock waves throughout her body and changed her life forever. The operation removed both her uterus (hysterectomy) and her ovaries (castration). However, contrary to what Coffey had been advised by both her medical and lay resources, their removal produced changes in her body which left her emotionally and physically crippled.

Prior to the operation, Coffey describes herself as “a strong, healthy, vigorous woman, working as a researcher in biochemistry.” Then she says she began to experience annoying, irregular vaginal bleeding which lasted nearly a year. Without exploring any other method of treatment, says Coffey, her doctor advised a hysterectomy. Before consenting to the surgery, Coffey researched the subject in local libraries and questioned women she knew who had already gone through the operation. According to Coffey, all her resources agreed with her physician — be done with the messy bleeding, be freed from the worry of pregnancy, be a new woman, have the hysterectomy. The physical and cognitive after-effects of the hysterectomy were devastating.
Read an in-depth interview with Nora Coffey conducted by Lee Rothberg, a Registered Nurse at the Woman’s Newspaper, Princeton, NJ (1986)

In 1982, Nora founded the organization called HERS (Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services) which gathers both medical and lay information on the alternatives to hysterectomy and the known risks and complications of the surgery.

I wanted to stop this from happening to my mother, my sister, my daughter. It became my goal to prevent this from happening to even one other woman.

Informed consent would require that all women be given full disclosure about the surgical risks and permanent physiological and psychological changes brought on by hysterectomy.

Nora has lectured extensively in the United States and in Europe. Coffey has been a guest lecturer in medical schools, nursing schools, undergraduate and graduate programs. She has been invited to present papers to Women and Gender Studies Conferences and women’s health organizations. She has testified at FDA hearings and works with FDA to ensure the reporting of adverse events of uterine artery embolization (UAE), also called uterine fibroid embolization (UFE).

In 2004–2005 she led the only nationwide protest against hysterectomy. The protest took place in front of hospitals in every state, every day, for a year.

Nora Coffey has been interviewed by 20/20, Oprah Winfrey, Phil Donahue, and Good Morning America. Interviews with Coffey have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, New York Magazine, Newsweek, USA TODAY, Ms. Magazine and others. She produced Rick Schweikert’s play Un becoming which premiered Off-Broadway in 2004. It was subsequently seen in 23 other cities and produced in Washington, D.C. in 2005. Barbara Seaman, the acclaimed women’s health advocate and author of The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth said of Schweikert’s play “Every woman, man and child should see this play!”

She is currently working toward a sustainable legal remedy to end hysterectomy without the information requisite to informed consent.

The H WordHer book, co-authored by Rick Schweikert, empowers women, providing the facts they need to know about the consequences of a hysterectomy; the questions to ask a doctor who recommends a hysterectomy; and the alternative solution. The H Word takes an unflinching look into the complex environment of hysterectomy and those who enable it. It explores issues of sex, power, and money in the most common non-obstetric surgery performed in America.

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