Posted on 06/12/2013 11:45:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 06/12/2013 11:45:54 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sarah Murnaghan, the 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl dying of cystic fibrosis, is receiving her long-awaited lung transplant.
According to a Facebook post from Sarah
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Under the current guidelines for organ donation, children under the age of 12 must wait for pediatric lungs to become available. Adult lungs cannot be offered to children under 12, until they are offered to adults and adolescents first.
The Murnaghans have been in the midst of a legal battle over the established rules for organ donation after they filed a lawsuit last week to have the guidelines changed, arguing the rule keeping Sarah off the list was "discriminatory."
A federal court judge granted a temporary order on June 5 that allowed Sarah to join an adult organ transplant list.
Judge Michael Baylson made his ruling after hearing oral arguments on the case and had scheduled a preliminary injunction hearing for June 14.
Baylson's order told Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to direct the group that manages the organ transplant list to cease application of it in Sarah's case.
Secretary Sebelius declined to intervene in the case early last week, despite urgent pleas from several members of Congress from Pennsylvania. Sebelius said that such decisions should be made by medical experts and noted that there were three other children at Children's Hospital alone in the same condition.
This is wonderful news! Prayers for Sarah, the surgical team and her family.
Miracles happen.. Prayers for the child.
Someone died so that this girl and probably others might live. So prayers as well for the caring individual who decided to become an organ donor.
I have a friend whose 13 year old son has Hepatitis C, received through a transfusion oddly enough. He is therefore ineligible for a liver transplant, so he may well die shortly. I am therefore always surprised to hear about alcoholic Hollywood stars etc. who never seem to have much of a problem getting a transplant.
ObamaCare will certainly take care of that, or one would hope.
Funny and ironic how the world turns.
Prayers for the kid.. and hire a good lawyer.
I grew up next door to two kids who had cystic fibrosis. RIP, my friends.
Do we really want judges deciding these things?
I grew up next door to two kids who had cystic fibrosis. RIP, my friends.
Right there with you golux on the Hollweird stars & musicians that seem to get priority. Prayers for your friends son.
Not only NO, but Hell NO!
“Under the current guidelines for organ donation, children under the age of 12 must wait for pediatric lungs to become available. Adult lungs cannot be offered to children under 12, until they are offered to adults and adolescents first.”
This sounds like a reasonable policy.
At the very least a number of IRS audits
Very probable and they’ll probably advise the parents that since the lungs are a gift, the gift tax applies. The IRS will figure the value of a long life and tax accordingly.
And I don't trust Sebelious to do anything right.
But I think she was right, here.
Yes, it is discriminatory. Discriminatory is NOT equal to "bad".
I presume the medical folks have reasons for setting the dividing line here.
And I presume it's on medical chances grounds.
If there were no suitable adult recipient candidates around, then by all means, give it to this girl. Somehow, I think that's not the case.
If anyone has any contrary evidence, then lay it on me.
Until then, I think we've opened a Pandora's box of litigation-based decisions, and I for one don't want lawyers and judges involved.
Agreed. The process of “shaving” lungs to fit in a smaller body means the transplant is less likely to be a success. The process of preferring older and grown up candidates is reasonable.
I’m going to hate seeing the online pleas and human interest stories of who needs this organ and than, so that they go to whomever is the most photogenic or sympathetic - not the best tissue match or greatest odds of surviving.
This rule did not exist until 2005....so this transplant was done on children using adult lungs before
Mark Levin had a lung transplant recipient on his show and he discussed this case
Note that the doctors for this girl said they can use an adult lung for her.
Sebelius just getting her Death Panels ready
I would think the policy would specify size, not age. Many adults are smaller than some large children.
“Prayers for Sarah, the surgical team and her family.”
And up yours, Kathleen Sebelius!
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