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.
In this case, the Courts emasculated tyranny.
>> someone gets life-saving treatment at the expense of someone else
Didn’t know FR was blessed with so many soothsayers.
“Dear God now may she please find a lung available for transplant, Amen”
Now here’s a place that prayer’s should be from every decent person in the country,
I don’t know if this just opens up a whole new can of worms. According to the article, this ruling pertains to Sarah only. What about the thousands of other people waiting for lungs? They have heartwrenching stories too. I also suffer from Cystic Fibrosis and I am happy for her and her parents but feel bad for the others.
Sebellius is a political vampire.
I hope this stands and that witch Sebelius doesn’t try to appeal.
Whoever this judge is, commendations to him or her for doing the right thing. May Kathleen Sebelius' own family receive the same treatment (or lack of it) that she overlords upon others in control of life and death.
If Sebelius appealed, I daresay that would warrant making sure she never gets a good night’s sleep again.
I was not implying someone would be killed to harvest their lung: What I meant was, what other would-be lung donation RECIPIENT will now be denied, since the girl will now get the lung they would have gotten?
I think this is great news:) The judge has ordered a 10 day exception to the rules so that the policy can be reviewed... appropriate. My issue all along was asking a cabinet level appointee override the law based on media manipulation of national emotion. I wish this little girl a full recovery.
You rarely get the full story from the news, but did they challenge the list in court based upon age discrimination? That would be a very interesting legal premise.
Ok.
The whole issue of the transplant is moot if a suitable donor is not found, not everyone on the list finds someone.
There are so few donors, it maybe moot anyway.
Who's saying some other recipient will get denied?
The problem here is that government is involved, not natural order.
Or she gets to be on both lists now.
I heard someone else say that although an adult lung could be cut to fit into her, it would scar more, be less likely to work and more likely to need to be replaced in a few years. This might not be a case of someone else being bumped down the list and dying so that she can live, but rather two people (one now and one more in a few years) dying.
It's a horrible situation and if it was my daughter I would be tempted to bring in "donor" lungs that I "found" in order to keep her alive (head shots only to keep the lungs healthy), but that twelve year old limit was picked for a reason to provide the best distribution for a very limited supply of donor organs. I don't know whether the math is good, but more skilled people than me or that judge decided it for a reason.
Separation of lung and state.
Scrooge you Sebelius and God bless that little girl with lung life-—pun intended.
Oy, the point to me is that the Government does not belong in these decisions!!
She should at least have a chance like anyone else.
Resizing living tissue is not like sewing fabric. This why they have separate lists for kids and adults in the first place.
Too much trauma and the transplant fails and the donor lungs are wasted and somebody else’s chance is wasted with it.
I don’t think the judge made the right decision at all. The Organ Board should be left alone by the politicians, media, and judges who all have more sympathy than sense.
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