Posted on 05/29/2013 2:51:51 PM PDT by Wanderer99
If Sarah Murnaghan were 12 years old, she would be at the top of the adult lung transplant list because she only has weeks to live and a lung transplant would as-good-as cure her of cystic fibrosis.
But she's not 12, and if she doesn't get new lungs, she might not even make it to 11.
"We are not asking for preference for Sarah, we are asking for equality," Sarah's mother, Janet Murnaghan, said in a press release. "We strongly believe Sarah should be triaged based on the severity of her illness, not her age."
Organ Donation: Should Younger Patients Get Better Kidneys?
The Murnaghan family of Newtown Square, Pa., is fighting a little known organ transplant policy that is effectively pushing 10-year-old Sarah to the bottom of the adult transplant waiting list because it mandates that adult lungs be offered to all adult patients before they can be offered to someone under 12 years old.
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Yet it’s far more likely than from a stranger.
Nanny States kill.
Nanny State PING!
If everybody signed up to be an organ donor this would be much less of a problem.
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