Monday, February 12, 2018

Hospital Reverses Policy About Denying Illegal Immigrant Liver Transplant After ACLU Pressure

Hospital Reverses Policy About Denying Illegal Immigrant Liver Transplant After ACLU Pressure:
"An Oregon hospital contacted an illegal immigrant on Tuesday and told her she could not be on the liver transplant list. 
See the source imageThe hospital stated it “requires proof of lawful presence for transplant services.” 
Now the hospital has done an about-face after the ACLU and others applied public pressure.
The legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, Mat dos Santos, responded to the woman’s receipt of the letter from Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) by calling the policy “cruel and inhumane.”...
TAKE ACTION! Add your name to the petition asking all Oregon hospitals to stop denying people organ transplants based on their immigration status: https://action.aclu.org/secure/undocumented-mother-denied-transplant  https://twitter.com/lizzzyacker/status/961284516382785537 
Read on! 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So the Oregon Health and Science University is just fine with US citizens dying while waiting for an organ transplant so that a criminal alien can get one.

Jim Riley said...

The new America?