An Alberta woman who was removed from a high-priority organ transplant list for not receiving a COVID-19 vaccine has found a hospital in the United States that is willing to perform the surgery. Sheila Annette Lewis was diagnosed with a terminal illness in 2018 and was told she would not survive without an organ transplant. She…
Unvaccinated Canadian Woman Denied Organ Transplant Finds US Hospital to Perform Surgery
Japan Releases Figures on Organ Transplant Tourism
Japan recently released its latest numbers for transplant travelers, showing one-third of them had their organs transplanted in China. A Japanese governmental survey said that as of the end of March, 543 people were confirmed to have received organ transplants overseas, 175 of whom had received transplants in China, accounting for more than 32 percent…
Analysts Worry CCP Using Hong Kong to Dodge Foreign Restrictions on Organ Transplant
Since Lo Chung-mau, Secretary for Health of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, expressed his hope in December 2022 to integrate Hong Kong hospitals into the China Organ Transplant Response System (COTRS), the number of people canceling their organ donor registration skyrocketed in the same month. Commentators suspect that the Chinese Community Party is trying to…
Woman Denied Transplant for Refusing COVID Vaccine Gives Emotional Testimony at National Citizens Inquiry
A woman who urgently needs an organ transplant but has been pushed to the bottom of the waiting list because doctors say she must have a COVID vaccine—something she maintains would be unsafe given her condition—told her moving story recently during testimony at the National Citizens Inquiry. “Whatever these doctors are doing, you’re evil, there’s…
Capitol Report: Will Possible Arrest Help Trump in 2024 Election Bid? Fed Raises Interest Rates Again
In another delay in New York’s probe into former President Donald Trump, the grand jury is on standby for a possible decision Thursday, with a clear divide in reactions between Republicans in the House and Senate. Legacy PAC founder Jared Craig joins us to assess the latest developments in the unprecedented case, and what this…
Smith Seeking Second Medical Opinion on Woman Denied Transplant Operation Due to COVID-19 Vaccination Status
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she is seeking a second medical opinion concerning a woman who sued Alberta Health Services (AHS) and her transplant doctors for denying her a life-saving organ transplant unless she first receives COVID-19 shots. The premier was asked during a press conference on Nov. 29 about Sheila Annette Lewis, who recently…
Lawyers for Patient Denied Transplant for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccination Considering Next Steps
EDMONTON—The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) is deliberating whether to take the Alberta Court of Appeal’s ruling to deny a woman who is refusing COVID-19 vaccination an organ transplant to the Supreme Court. On Nov. 8, the appeal court upheld a lower court’s decision to deny Sheila Lewis’s request to return to the top of the…
Don’t Let Doctors Kill Sick Patients for Their Organs
Commentary Because of long transplant waiting lists, the bioethics and medical establishments are bent on increasing the source of organs. It has gotten so bad that some of the most influential policy advocates in bioethics now urge that doctors be allowed to do what was once considered unthinkable—kill would-be donors for their organs. Harvesting vital…
Global Transplantation Communities Urged to Ban Research From China
Medical professionals and advocates are calling on their global transplantation societies to stop collaboration and ban transplant-related research papers from China, citing concerns over the human rights atrocity of forced organ harvesting. The appeal followed a first-of-its-kind restriction issued by the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), a nonprofit transplantation association. The group announced…
Organ Transplant Rejections Following Infection and COVID-19 Injections, Studies Show
Most of us will never need a transplant, but for the people who do, transplants can be lifesaving. After transplant operations, recipients are told to follow a strict drug regimen to make sure their organs are not rejected by their own immune system. Rejection can result in transplant failure and necessitate removal of the donor…
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