Sarah Murnaghan needs a lung transplant.

Sarah Murnaghan
Sarah Murnaghan’s mother is asking the federal government to intercede in UNOS rules

She is dying from an illness called cystic fibrosis, a terrible genetic illness that cannot be cured. At end-stage, a lung transplant may buy her a few more years of life. Her mother, Janet Murnaghan is trying desperately to give her pushed up on transplant list for a pair of lungs, claiming that ‘ageism’ is keeping her child from getting them sooner.

Janet Murnaghan wants the federal government to intervene and change the order of the Organ Sharing’s networks rules so that her child is put higher up.

However in doing so, she may establish a precedent for the government to change the rules on any of us, and in the end, may do more harm than good, and finalize the prediction of death panels in Obamacare.

UPDATE: As predicted in the original story, Change.org has now updated their petitions on their website this weekend, to alter several other rules regarding organ transplants that involve age, and need. The assault the role of doctors at the hands of government has begun. The unwitting GOP in an effort to garner votes is playing into the potential danger of this case.

 

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Little Sarah Murnaghan’s Needed Lung Transplant: Why Gov’t Should Not Intervene (via http://www.thebrennerbrief.com)

“I don’t want to see Sarah Murnaghan die, but I don’t want to see others die in her place. I don’t want to see doctors lose their independence from the government. I don’t want bureaucrats to determine who lives and who dies. I don’t want to see liberty encroached further by big government…

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