Mon Oct 25, 2021 – 10:33 pm EDT
DALLAS, Texas (LifeSiteNews) – 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.
Dawn McLaughlin, a Colorado woman with polycystic kidney disease, had been informed last month by UCHealth in Aurora that she could not undergo her 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.
UCHealth has said it implemented the policy because organ transplant patients have a 20 percent-30 percent chance of dying from COVID-19 after surgery. “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.
McLaughlin’s story echoed that of another woman, Leilani Lutali, who was
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