If you can’t understand it, I can’t help you. She isn’t getting a higher place on the list. She is just getting on the list which she was denied before because of the rules. All this does is put her on the list until the rules can be reviewed in light of today’s medical advances. She was denied being put on the list because of her age not because she isn’t big enough to receive adult donor lungs. The doctors are the only one having the say in whether or not she will receive a transplant. The only say the judge had was putting her on the list so she could be considered to receive the lungs. I will try to say it one last time for clarity. SHE ISN’T GETTING LUNGS BECAUSE OF THE PRESS. SHE IS JUST GETTING THE SAME CHANCE EVERYONE OVER 12 YEARS OLD IS GETTING.
I understand perfectly well. It is you who does not. The mere fact she is on the adult list now means she has been given a higher chance than before by legal diktat.
Hard cases make for bad law, and this isn’t the time or the way for them to go making changes in the policy.
Should the policy be reexamined with the advances? Very possibly yes, since moving the line could improve chances on both sides of it. This was still the worst possible way to go about it.