Speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania last month, Mike Pence, the Republican vice presidential nominee, was moved when a young boy told him that two members of his family were dying from the fatal condition amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, often referred to as "Lou Gehrig's disease."
The 11-year-old asked whether Pence would advocate for a national "right-to-try" law similar to the one passed in his state of Indiana in 2015. Right-to-try laws allow terminally ill patients to take experimental drugs before final Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. The Indiana-governor-turned-running-mate promised the lad that he would continue to support all right-to-try laws, apparently agreeing with similar language embedded earlier in the 2016 Republican platform.
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