Posted on 01/17/2012 6:35:36 PM PST by absalom01
Amelia "Mia" Rivera has Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, a complex genetic disorder that causes mental and physical impairments, and her family said that the 3-year-old will die if she does not get a kidney in the next six months to a year.
Mia's mother Chrissy Rivera has said the family is willing to donate a live organ, but Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has reportedly told her that they will not recommend transplantation for the toddler because of her disabilities.
Rivera blogged about her daughter's plight last Friday, and now more than 20,000 online supporters from 15 states are petitioning the hospital to give the toddler the kidney they say she needs to survive.
"I didn't think it was going to be an issue," said Rivera, a 35-year-old high school English teacher from southern New Jersey who has two other children, aged 11 and 6.
When the family went to CHOP last week to discuss the transplant, Rivera said she "thought we were just finding out how transplant works and how we could be a donor."
"But then, I was told we couldn't because she was mentally retarded," she said. "Those were the exact words on a piece of paper."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
The culture of death, and this before Obamacare kicks in.
The hospital is spinning the story furiously, but at the present, I'm believing the mother's story.
She’s unlikely to be a contributor in the brave new world of marxism.
When you give up your responsibility to pay, you give others the ability to say no.
I might have to side with the doctors on this. The hypocratic oath says first do no harm. By that definition, no living person should ever be allowed to donate an organ. The medical community has bent the rules a little in order to make money. Pure and simple. Transplants are a profit making venture. They know they are doing wrong so to assuage their guilt they draw a line somewhere else. That somewhere else is to not do transplants to people who are unhealthy so as not to waste an organ. Apparently they have decided genetic health is also a consideration.
You can do fine with one healthy kidney. If a parent is willing to donate their kidney to their child (for instance) there is no reason they should not be able to. Are you suggesting your body parts are not your own?
This will seriously change the way Americans view a murderous medical profession. Look at the popularity of abortionists for the future of American medical professionals who make decisions on withholding care for undeserving life.
Americans are not Euro-peon subjects. We have a whole different Christian culture than do the elitist humanists who decide who has a worthy life and who deserves to be dead based upon their economic usefulness to the elite. I hope we never fit into this amoral socialist machine and that we jam it up good and make the elite very sorry they even dreamed of dictating to and killing us on their bureaucratic terms.
It doesn’t matter what you can do fine with. It is still doing damage to remove an organ. That is a violation of the hypocratic oath. You are either too stupid to reason with or you just don’t give a damn and don’t care about facts. Ether way, any discussion with you is a waste of my time. Have a good evening.
The way it will turn out is the kid will get the surgery and like the Doctor said, will die because of other defects.
The mother will then sue the doctor and hospital for malpractice and get rich off the settlement and TV rights
By that logic, donating blood is also doing harm, should doctors stop that? Should we stop bone marrow transplants? Clinical trials?
Thank you for the link. The whole article should be read. This child is being denied a chance for life due to a hospital’s idea of “quality of life”.
Paging Zeke Emanuel.
There's an exception to that rule for well know former baseball players. They get to go to the head of the line even if they have terminal diseases other than the self inflicted liver damage.
“That somewhere else is to not do transplants to people who are unhealthy so as not to waste an organ.”
The article never mentioned if the child was unhealthy or not. Where did you get this info?
One comment said there must be a republican on the board,remember Sarah Palin’s death panels? Are people that stupid? They think Sarah is for death panels?
A little background.
Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome is an extremely rare chromosome disorder caused by a partial deletion (monosomy) of the short arm (”p”) of chromosome 4. Major of symptoms may include extremely wide-set eyes (ocular hypertelorism) with a broad or beaked nose, a small head (microcephaly), low-set malformed ears, mental and growth deficiency, heart (cardiac) defects, and seizures.
Because of the wide range of deleted chromosomal material, prognosis varies widely.
Their life expectancy is unknown. The oldest known living today was born in 1949.
Of course it does harm to remove an organ - but many people would rather suffer that harm and risk than the harm of a loved one dying.
She should ask Obama if ObamaCare would cover it.
This is exactly the same way the fascists went about implementing the same programs and pogroms in Germany before WWII and still more proof that the democrat party is now and always has been the fascist party dedicated to the same goals that fascism in Germany was dedicated to. They founded eugenics and adopted German socialism with crony capitalism as part of the rewards mechanism the hierarchy benefited from. All after several decades of destroying what had been a wonderful educational system.
Though the article did not mention this child specifically, it stated on page two: "Patients with weak immune systems or a high risk of infection, such as some children with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome, cannot be immunosuppressed, according to those guidelines. "
Maybe they could get an abortionist to do it. #irony
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