Rights group suing hospitals who deny transplants to non-injected patients

Legal rights group Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) has begun filing lawsuits against hospitals and medical centers who deny transplants to patients based on their injection status, reports The Epoch Times. 

“Individuals in the United States have the inherent and fundamental Constitutional Right given by God, not any government board, to seek or to refuse medical treatment or any part of a course of medical treatment,” PJI affirms in its complaint served on July 5 to the University of Michigan. 

“They are electing to let patients die by refusing to provide them with life-saving medical care by forcing a medical care that has no established benefits.” said PJI Senior Counsel Dave Peters. “If that’s not morally, ethically, and legally outrageous then I don’t know what is.” 

Refusing life-saving transplants to non-injected patients has become standard practice in many medical facilities, including Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital which last week forced six-month-old August Stoll to get the entire vaccine schedule before receiving a critical heart transplant. The decision, made by Vanderbilt University Hospital Ventricular Assist Device Program Medical Director David Bearl, was not medical; Baby August could survive the transplant without being vaccinated. But as Bearl put it, “it’s just how we do things here.” 

“We did not win,” Hannah Stoll told America’s Frontline News. 

In May, Spectrum Health Helen Devos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan violated its own health code when it denied a kidney transplant to a 17-year-old Ukrainian girl for not being injected.  

Not only did Spectrum Health Helen Devos Children’s Hospital deny the girl a kidney, they also called Child Protective Services (CPS) to report her adoptive mother for refusing to vaccinate her child. 

Earlier this year, America’s Frontline News reported on Chad Carswell, a double amputee with kidney failure who was refused a kidney transplant by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital, despite Carswell having recovered from COVID-19 twice. 

But Carswell’s response to the hospital was simple: give him liberty or give him death.  

"They said the last thing we need to talk about is your vaccination status," Carswell said. "And that's when I politely told him there was nothing really to talk about. It wasn't up for debate that I wasn't getting it. And then he told me, you know you'll die if you don't get it. And I said I'm willing to die."   

He added: “I was born free. I will die free. I'm not changing my mind.”