Posted on 06/13/2013 4:07:55 AM PDT by tobyhill
The 10-year-old girl at the heart of a national debate over transplant lists that led to a fight on Capitol Hill and criticism of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had successful lung surgery and is recovering well, doctors said Thursday. Sarah Murnaghan, who has cystic fibrosis and was in dire need of a double lung transplant, is in intensive care, but on the road to full recovery, the Daily Mail reported. She only received the surgery after a court ruled that Ms. Sebelius must open the door to place her on an adult transplant list, despite her age. Current law says only those ages 12 or older can be placed on adult transplant lists.
We expect it will be a long road, but were not going for easy, were going for possible, said Sarahs mother, in a Facebook posting. And an organ donor has made this possible for her. She earlier wrote, after receiving news of the organ donor: God is great. He moved the mountain, the Daily Mail reported.
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Government needs to stay out of medicine!
Her comment about “someone will live, someone will die” was talking about the scarcity of organs - in other words, someone will get a lung and live, and someone else will not get that same lung and may die as a result. I don’t think she was proving that she believes herself to be the sole arbiter of life and death; to the contrary, I understood her comment as saying that it was a difficult situation, and she did NOT want to intervene and be the person who decides who lives and who dies.
Quite right. Of course someone else died because this girl took their place on the list, but since we don’t know the identity of that person, no one cares. Besides, that person was likely not as cute.
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