I believe that it is in fact an attack on our freedom of choice when a government entity decides what clinical trials are permitted and what are not. By doing so, governments tend to create a bureaucratic delay in advancing medical research that might result in discovering or inventing new treatments. I think that an easy argument can be made for the freedom of voluntarily participating in clinical tests that could cause some harm to us; by using the same reasons usually mentioned when recruiting individuals to join any country’s army. People, generally speaking, would say that there’s nothing more noble in life than one’s selfless sacrifice in defending one’s state or land. The same life, and the same health, that an individual would willingly sacrifice for a cause that he or she thinks legitimate, is the same life or health that could be sacrificed (partially or fully) if the participants in questionable clinical trials decide to go through. Our morals are different and our concerns in life are also different. Governments cannot, on one hand, be recruiting young, strong, and healthy individuals to join their armed forces, in many cases because of financial circumstances, and be sent to war zones fighting unnecessary fights, while on the other hand, those same governments would be banning elderly, weak and dying individuals who feel strongly that they have lived their life to the fullest, and at some point want to risk their life or health for a greater cause; which might be the next big medical treatment.