"Retardation" Make Girl Unworthy of Transplant...Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

UPDATE:  Given a huge outpouring of support by the disability community, CHOP is re-considering its decision and has met with parents to discuss future possibilities for the transplant.

       "Mental Retardation", a word despicable unto itself, is a criteria being used by the Children's Hospital of  Philadelphia to deny a young girl an organ transplant.  A complete and expanded story, commentary and action plan is written by Stephen Drake at the blog....Not Dead Yet.  It's a brilliant commentary on the disabled and organ donation.  Please read it HERE and take action. Please forward to friends!
         Simply, all life has value...the disabled have a right to life and no doctor, no committee, no hospital have the moral or ethical right to say that that a life is not worth living.....To assume that a life is not worth living places us in the same historical hell as Josef Mengele.

Hope lives here?  Unless you're disabled...

     The hospital facebook page where you can leave comments: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

     The mom's original blog about her experience: HERE

http://www.wolfhirschhorn.org/2012/01/amelia/brick-walls/
Amelia Rivera, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
No life saving kidney transplant because she is "retarded"!

GREAT ARTICLE about the above situation: CLICK HERE


For all disability activists:

Some media sources you can contact to get Amelia's story out

http://www.wolfhirschhorn.org/2012/01/amelia/brick-walls/
http://www.facebook.com/cnn
http://www.facebook.com/WBRETV?sk=wall
http://www.facebook.com/PhillyDailyNews
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Philadelphia-News/129580433764477
http://www.facebook.com/phillyinquirer
http://www.facebook.com/6abc.ActionNews
http://ireport.cnn.com/
http://www.facebook.com/cnn?sk=wall&filter=1
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41625923
http://ellen.warnerbros.com/show/respond/?PlugID=10
http://www.phillyautoshow.com/philadelphia-auto-show-black-tie-tailgate-announces-2012-event-beneficiary#comment-229
http://www.change.org/petitions/childrens-hospital-of-philadelphia-allow-the-kidney-transplant-amelia-needs-to-survive
http://www.caringforkids.com/Overview/Board-of-Trustees
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/contact-us/
http://www.courierpostonline.com/section/customerservice07
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Congressman-Robert-Brady/118845109487?sk=wall&filter=12