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Judge orders girl added to adult lung transplant list
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| 6/5/13
| JoNel Aleccia
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.
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To: taxcontrol
Lobbing politicians is the best answer. Lob the bastards clear out of the country........
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:46:45 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: EDINVA
Excellent!
Judge Baylson certainly has more common sense and compassion than Sebelius.
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:46:54 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
To: 2harddrive
My question is, who is going to die instead of this girl, if she gets their lung? 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.
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:47:02 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: STJPII; HiTech RedNeck; Ronaldus Magnus; longfellowsmuse
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:47:44 PM PDT
by
Errant
To: blueyon
Wow, the fact that this is even an issue that the Government and the Courts are involved with is truly chilling to the bone.
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...
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:47:51 PM PDT
by
Las Vegas Ron
(The government rejects the natural law because it is an obstacle to its control over us.)
To: NonValueAdded
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.
To: taxcontrol
I don't know. I think lobbing some politicians would be good. It's the lobbying that doesn't always work.
lob (l b) v. lobbed, lob·bing, lobs. v.tr. To hit, throw, or propel in a high arc
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:48:23 PM PDT
by
Waryone
(Trust the Lord not your own understanding. Acknowledge Him. He will direct your path.)
To: hoosiermama
To: dadfly
Thank God?
NO, curse and destroy this despotic gubmint.
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:49:00 PM PDT
by
Las Vegas Ron
(The government rejects the natural law because it is an obstacle to its control over us.)
To: blueyon
We are now entering the brave new world where politicians and judges determine who will live and who will not. Obamacare, indeed. I'm happy for the little girl but this is nothing to celebrate.
Everyone thrilled with the decision has implicitly accepted the new order.
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:50:11 PM PDT
by
BfloGuy
(Don't try to explain yourself to liberals; you're not the jackass-whisperer.)
To: NEMDF
I know that I was at my full height and young adult weight when I was 10. (Not my older adult weight, but that is another story.) 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.
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:50:11 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: blueyon
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!
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:51:04 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Errant
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:51:30 PM PDT
by
STJPII
To: blueyon
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:53:17 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: Biggirl
Good to know there is still common sense in our Nation!
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:54:26 PM PDT
by
Conserev1
("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
To: 2harddrive
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.
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:55:04 PM PDT
by
svcw
(If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
To: blueyon
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:56:32 PM PDT
by
JaguarXKE
(1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
To: 2harddrive
>> 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.
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:58:54 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: BfloGuy
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.
To: blueyon
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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posted on
06/05/2013 3:00:35 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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