Texas Welcomes Unvaccinated Colorado Patients Denied Life-Saving Kidney Transplants

Raymond Wolfe : Oct 26, 2021
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"Anyone being denied critical, life-saving organ transplants is welcome here in Texas, where one's rights and freedoms are always protected." -Gov. Greg Abbott said.

(Dallas, TX) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Colorado patients denied life-saving organ transplants due to their COVID vaccination status are now being welcomed in Texas by an organ donor foundation, a Dallas hospital, and Republican leaders, including Gov. Greg Abbott. (Image: Unsplash-Pete Alexopoulos)

Dawn McLaughlin, a Colorado woman with polycystic kidney disease, had been informed last month by UCHealth in Aurora that she could not undergo her kidney transplant because she had not received the COVID-19 vaccine, CBS 4 reported. McLaughlin's kidney doctor has advised her against the shot and she is "just following his advice," McLaughlin said.

UCHealth nevertheless put her an inactive list for a transplant last month. McLaughlin's kidneys have enlarged to 17 and 21 pounds and are "covered in cysts," she told CBS 4.

McLaughlin's story echoed that of another woman, Leilani Lutali, who was similarly "inactivated" from UCHealth's kidney transplant list recently for turning down COVID-19 vaccination, despite suffering from stage five kidney disease and having found a willing donor.

UCHealth has said it implemented its vaccine policy because organ transplant patients have a 20 percent-30 percent chance of dying from COVID-19 . "Never mind that refusing the transplant—after the patients have waited years for their turn—would have close to a 100 percent chance of death," noted Wesley J. Smith of National Review.

Since the news of the two Colorado women's denial of care, the Texas-based Niklas Organ Donor Awareness Foundation has reached out to offer free housing and transportation to patients who have been rejected for organ transplants for not being vaccinated. The foundation contacted McLaughlin and has connected her with UT Southwestern, a major Dallas hospital that does not require COVID vaccination for transplants... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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