John Aravosis at Americablog.com came across a story that needs to be front and center of every news organization in the country. Predictably the same people who protest in front of family planning clinics and jumped on the Terri Schivo bandwagon are silent about this one.
A 15 year old boy in foster care needs a new liver. The hospital and doctors have decided that since he is in foster care and has a history of problems with foster families that his life is not worth saving. In the words of the Miani Herald, "Shands Hospital in Gainesville removed the boy, 15, from a waiting list for organ recipients after administrators determined the boy's unstable living conditions make him a poor candidate for a transplant." In other words toss the kid, he's poor and an orphan.
When did our country turn into England in the 17th century? When did we lose the atitude that every life is worth saving? Instead, only the rich, those with stable home lives and those with lots of insurance are on the short list for transplants. The rest of you rabble, well tough luck. You should have been born into wealthier families.
Read the whole story and then write your congressperson and the president and demand that we stop discarding human beings for lack of a stable home or insurance!
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