Canada: Alberta Legal Group Blasts Judge after Ruling COVID Jab for an Organ Transplant Is Warranted

Anthony Murdoch : Jul 15, 2022
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"I ought to have the choice about what goes into my body, and a lifesaving treatment cannot be denied to me because I chose not to take an experimental treatment for a condition." -Sheila Annette Lewis

[LifeSiteNews.com] In a decision that lawyers are blasting as an affront to freedoms, an Alberta Court of Queen's Bench judge ruled Tuesday that one's constitutional rights do not apply to persons seeking organ transplants. (Image: Pixabay)

The legal decision comes from a case in court by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) concerning 57-year-old Sheila Annette Lewis, who has a terminal condition known as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

In March 2021, Lewis was told that she would no longer be on the wait list for organ transplantation unless she submitted to the COVID shots.

In her legal affidavit, Lewis noted that getting the "vaccine offends my conscience."

"I ought to have the choice about what goes into my body, and a lifesaving treatment cannot be denied to me because I chose not to take an experimental treatment for a condition," Lewis noted.

Allison Pejovic, JCCF lawyer and legal counsel, said that "the Court's decision is deeply disappointing."

"AHS has an obligation to ensure that doctors that are carrying out their duties within the provincially funded transplant program are upholding the Charter, and it seems that the court has effectively ruled that AHS can contract out of its Charter obligations," she added... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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