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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it would be murder to kill her, than she deserves the same treatment as any human being.[/quote]

By that logic a raging alcoholic deserves a liver transplant just as much as a little girl in a car accident or a smoker a lung transplant over a ski-accident victim. But, the alcoholic and smoker are barred from receiving organs because they won't live long enough to receive a benefit from an organ transplant. This is how organ transplant works. Someone's loved one died tragically and their gifts, their organs should go to the people most likely to benefit.[/quote]

But HER OWN FAMILY want to give her a kidney.  So this has nothing to do with someone's loved one dying and that dead child's kidney going to a god-forbid disabled kid.  This little girl could live for years after receiving her kidney transplant.  They cited her intellectual disability as the reason she was being denied her kidney transplant, not the amount of time she is expected to live.

What other life saving care should be withheld from this child because her life is not as valuable as other children's?  Should she receive vaccines last?  After all, those are resources that are finite, should she get to the back of the line because she's going to die young anyway?  How about just any kind of medical care in general...what if she gets the flu and is in respiratory distress.  Another healthier child comes in after her in the same condition.  Should she get treated after the other kid so the "resources" aren't used up on her worthless life?  See how this can become a philosophy of treating the mentally disabled as if their lives are less than?  [b]See how this becomes like eugenics?[/b][/quote]

Again, eugenics has to do with mating. Not how you treat the disabled.[/quote]

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