{"id":1543534,"date":"2022-07-07T17:49:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T21:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543534"},"modified":"2022-07-07T17:49:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T21:49:51","slug":"rights-group-files-first-lawsuit-against-hospitals-denying-transplants-to-unvaccinated-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rights-group-files-first-lawsuit-against-hospitals-denying-transplants-to-unvaccinated-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights Group Files First Lawsuit Against Hospitals Denying Transplants to Unvaccinated Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frights-group-files-first-lawsuit-against-hospitals-denying-transplants-to-unvaccinated-patients%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543534&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A national legal rights organization has filed the first of what it says will be dozens of lawsuits against U.S. health care facilities that are denying patients organ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-transplants\">transplants<\/a> for not being vaccinated against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the first complaint\u2014which was filed against the University of Michigan\u2019s transplant center\u2014the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) argues the hospitals are carrying out illegal and unconstitutional policies by requiring medical treatment against the will of a patient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndividuals 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,\u201d PJI states in its lawsuit it served on July 5 to the board of regents that oversees the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dave Peters, senior counsel for PJI, the California organisation will be filing a second lawsuit sometime this week against the Lehigh Valley Clinic in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the University of Michigan nor Lehigh Valley Clinic responded to inquiries by The Epoch Times about the litigations.<\/p>\n<p>In a written response to PJI\u2019s notice of intent to sue the hospital dated May 26, the general counsel for the university\u00a0Thomas Kent stated that \u201cthe complaint fails to allege the violation of any clearly established constitutional right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to alleged constitutional violations, the lawsuits allege that the hospitals are also violating\u00a0informed consent laws and the Hippocratic oath of doctors to do no harm to patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are electing to let patients die\u00a0 by refusing to provide them with life-saving medical care by forcing a medical care that has no established benefits,\u201d said Peters, \u201cif that\u2019s not morally, ethically, and legally outrageous then I don\u2019t know what is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ross Barranco, one of the patients represented in the Michigan lawsuit, told The Epoch Times that he is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national legal rights organization has filed the first of what it says will be dozens of lawsuits against U.S. health care facilities that are denying patients organ transplants for not being vaccinated against COVID-19. 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