Sarah Murnaghan is a 10-year-old girl who will die within weeks if she does not get a lung transplant. She is currently fighting a terminal case of cystic fibrosis.
But government regulations, thanks to “Obamacare”, have made it so that the lung she so desperately needs will be offered to adults first, who are on the waiting list. To be considered an adult on the donor list, one must be at least 12 years of age.
So, only two years are preventing Sarah from receiving the transplant that would save her life. Without it, she will die from her disease.
Kathleen Sebelius, Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, has been asked to get involved on behalf of the dying girl. Rep. Tom Price of Georgia is desperately trying to convince Sebelius to interveine, saying to her, “it only takes your signature.”
Sarah’s family is at odds, pleading for the life of their child. They say it is well within Sebelius’ power to mandate an exception to give the transplant to the child.
Today Sebelius responded to the family. She said their situation is “incredibly agonizing”…. But she will not step in.
Wow.
Sebelius coldly said the situation is one where “someone lives and someone dies.”
I’d like to see what she would do if her own daughter were in Sarah’s situation. I have no doubt that an exception would be made if that were the case.
Yeah I bet if it were HER daughter she'd be first on the waiting list ahead of everybody else no questions asked.
Gosh this administration makes me madder every day.
Philippians 3:20-21 “But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.”
Yeah I bet if it were HER daughter she'd be first on the waiting list ahead of everybody else no questions asked.
Gosh this administration makes me madder every day.
Me too....but I comfort myself with the knowledge that our God is a God of perfect justice, and ALL the wrongs will be made right...and the wicked will suffer for eternity. I really think we're going to get to watch them being tried and sentenced; it sure would help bring closure, wouldn't it?
"I will look with my eyes and see the reward of the wicked." (Psalm 91)