In Memorium

 Libertarians who passed away in 2022

 

Philip Harvey.  According to The Guardian  "American social entrepreneur Phil Harvey, who has died aged 83, made contraception affordable for hundreds of millions of people in the developing world with subsidies provided by the profits from Adam & Eve, the sex shop company he founded in 1970. A committed libertarian, Harvey also used his considerable resources to champion the right to sexual healthcare and free speech in the US.

While working in the Punjab in India in the 1960s for the charity Care International, Harvey became deeply uncomfortable about the way western countries distributed aid. A woman in a threadbare sari knelt before him in gratitude for the food he was doling out, and he became determined to find a way to give aid that did not humiliate recipients."

 

Harvey supported Libertarian Party candidates through the Purple PAC, a libertarian political action committee that supported Libertarians Robert Sarvis in the 2013 Virginia gubernatorial race and Gary Johnson in the 2016 Presidential race. 

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Kathryn Serkes.  Kathryn was a much beloved small "l" libertarian who lived in Seattle, Washington and Washington, D.C. until her cancer diagnosis, when she retired to Colorado.  According to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons  "Kathryn was a valiant leader among Americans concerned about the intrusion of government into the patient-doctor relationship.

AAPS first met her during the push for socialized medicine in the U.S. in the 1990s under the guise of HillaryCare. Kathryn’s countless hours researching and educating patients and medical professionals across the U.S. about the dangers of what was in the bill, and who was writing it behind the scenes, was undoubtedly instrumental in stopping this harmful legislation.

When ObamaCare was being debated, Kathryn was back on the frontlines defending American medicine organizing rallies and media outreach on a national level so that doctors and patients’ voices could be heard.

Kathryn had a deep love for our nation and its founding principles of liberty and spent the last several years leading grassroots initiatives to support President Donald Trump’s endeavors to Make America Great Again."

Kathryn was a regular at the Wednesday meeting of American for Tax Reform, whose attendees remember her fondly as a witty person of great humanity.