Posted on 06/05/2013 2:34:10 PM PDT by blueyon
Edited on 06/05/2013 2:46:14 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary to suspend existing organ allocation rules to give a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl a better chance at a life-saving lung transplant.
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Baylson told Kathleen Sebelius to direct the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, or OPTN, to make an exception to the so-called "Under-12" rule as it applies to Sarah Murnaghan, who has end-stage cystic fibrosis, for at least 10 days, until a hearing on June 14. That move means that the girl can be considered more quickly for organs as an adult, instead of being limited to the pediatric transplant list.
The ruling, which grants a temporary restraining order, applies only to Sarah, although Baylson indicated that he would consider a similar move for another child in Sarah's circumstances, if a family presented the case in court.
Lobbing politicians is the best answer. Lob the bastards clear out of the country........
Judge Baylson certainly has more common sense and compassion than Sebelius.
My impression is that there are more adult lungs than child lungs available for transplant, which is why they wanted her to get an adult lung.
fyi
The ruling, which grants a temporary restraining order, applies only to Sarah, although Baylson indicated that he would consider a similar move for another child in Sarah's circumstances, if a family presented the case in court.
Breathtaking...
Probably not. But their intended purpose has been served. And that is sowing a seed into our collective minds that it is good and right for the federal government to decide who lives and who dies. This was a teaching moment.
The next time this happens the public will have shifted a tiny bit towards the left’s ideology. It will drip, drip, drip until they achieve their aim. Perhaps the people will be repulsed and reject the premise, perhaps not.
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Thank God?
NO, curse and destroy this despotic gubmint.
Everyone thrilled with the decision has implicitly accepted the new order.
There are a number of physically-small adults whose organs could fit a large child. Having a inviolable bureaucratic rule is counter-productive. If the docs think a match is viable, it should be up to the docs.
Can you imagine how this will play out day after day and time after time under Obamacare and with the ‘death panels’? God save the Republic!
Thank God.
THANKS BE TO GOD!!!!
Good to know there is still common sense in our Nation!
Someone isn’t killed for her to get a lung.
Some one may even donate a lung of their’s or a person who has died may be the donor.
Ditto x 1000
>> My question is, who is going to die instead of this girl, if she gets their lung?
Given your unique ability to predict the timing and availability of organ/donee pairing, maybe you should tell us who will be denied.
Would you prefer the required age be raised to 16? Hell, make it 80, so no “legal” patient goes without.
Was all this triggered by ObamaCare? I don’t think so. They have had these transplant rules in place for years. This would have come up without ObamaCare. It does indicate what we have to look forward and more and more life and death decisions are decided by the govt and judges.
This is a bad result. I don’t mean to sound cruel or heartless but this girl got a lung because her parents generated a lot of publicity and a political decision was made based on a sympathy factor. Now we have Obamacare, where politicians will be more involved in these decisions. The idea that someone gets life-saving treatment at the expense of someone else, who may die as a result, because that person is cute or sympathetic or in the right politically correct group is chilling.
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