Amelia's Plight

I read the story of Amelia on another site, and the posting from another blogger who, rightfully, is outraged at the Childrens Hospital of Philidelphia for denying a life-saving kidney transplant to this little girl for the fact that she is considered "mentally retarded". Not only do they use this as an excuse to deny the preceedure (which, by the way, the family will donate the kidney for), they also pull out the 'quality of life' excuse. This child is someone's daughter. She matters to them - her LIFE matters to them, even if she doesn't fit the doctors criteria for being important enough to save. I guess I must have missed the part where when doctors take the oath to first do no harm and save lives, that it listed the exclusions. C'mon, doctors of Childrens Hospital of Philly....do the right thing.

This is the link to the story about Amelia being denied the operation:
http://www.wolfhirschhorn.org/2012/01/amelia/brick-walls/

Here is a link to the petition by Change.org to get the hospital to do the operation:
http://www.change.org/petitions/executive-vice-president-and-chief-development-officer-allow-the-kidney-transplant-amelia-rivera-needs-to-survive