Amelia Rivera - Eugenics is alive and well and thriving in a Philadelphia Hospital!

http://simeonstrail.blogspot.com/2012/01/open-letter-to-medical-director-kidney.html

This relates to Amelia Rivera, the three-year-old whose life saving kidney transplant is being withheld from her on grounds that ONE doctor (unfortunately for Amelia, a powerful one) believes that as she has intellectual delay, she's not worth a transplant, even though the proposed donation comes from within her own family and NOT from the organ donation register.

We can all of us forget every cause we ever cared about if we can't as a global community get this Doctor (and by extension this hospital) to stop trampling on this ONE child's Human Rights, which are so blatantly being denied her.

If we can't protect one single child from the bullying and discrimination of this full grown man (who's extremely lucky that nobody gets to make a life or death decision on his worth as a human being given the strength of feeling out there globally!) then we have failed on the most basic level and better hope that those who predict the end of the World this year were right after all.

Here are the relevant links for any who feel something must be done to add their voices:

• The Hospital involved: https://www.facebook.com/ChildrensHospitalofPhiladelphia
• The Petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/childrens-hospital-of-philadelphia-allow-the-kidney-transplant-amelia-needs-to-survive (if you never sign anything else, lend your support to this!)
• The relevant local radio: https://www.facebook.com/nbcphiladelphia
• and another nearby media facility: https://www.facebook.com/News12NJ
• and if anyone would like to contact the head of the Transplant Team involved, his name is Dr Baluarte

Project 2012

Just so that you know, I am starting a very exciting sideline project for 2012.

The project has it's own blog over at: http://2012miniannusmirabilis.blogspot.com/
where project specific updates will go.

I'm still keeping up this blog periodically for now, but there's likely to be more activity over there for most of this year.

For anyone who may have missed it, the Charity auction in Novemeber raised €290 which was divided between Northwest Hospice Sligo and Dogs for the Disabled Ireland.

The last of the certificates are currently on the way out.


HUGE thank yous once again to all who helped or supported in any way!