UK - Daily Echo - Fluoride an 'abuse of human rights'

Fluoride an 'abuse of human rights'
FOLLOWING on from Tory health chiefs' statements on fluoridation (Daily Echo, October 5), it is concerning that there appears to be no opposition to the actual policy, only to how it is implemented.
The fundamental principle at the heart of the issue is being ignored. Enforced medication without INDIVIDUAL consent is illegal.
Fluoride through tap water is mass medication by the state, and an abuse of our most basic human rights.
A referendum may bring us the result we want locally, but it is still a violation of this principle, and we should be very clear on that point.
While we all welcome the possibility of a referendum and a "fairer" consultation process, these election promises ignore the medical ethics and illegality of fluoridation, and would not prevent it from happening.
Implementation would simply be more difficult. This could result in the pro fluoride lobby redoubling their efforts across the UK, spending more public money, spinning more shockingly biased propaganda, and threatening communities across the whole country.
What all political parties should be doing is promising unequivocally, that they will remove the Fluoridation and Indemnity Clauses from the Water Bill. That is the only permanent, nationwide solution. . Everything else is fudge.
Jennifer Johnson,
Clarford, Nr Andover.