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Rights Group Files First Lawsuit Against Hospitals Denying Transplants to Unvaccinated Patients

Rights Group Files First Lawsuit Against Hospitals Denying Transplants to Unvaccinated Patients
Doctors perform renal transplantation on a patient in this file photo from 2017. Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP via Getty Images
Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
7/7/2022|Updated: 7/8/2022
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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.
In the first complaint—which was filed against the University of Michigan’s transplant center—the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) argues the hospitals are carrying out illegal and unconstitutional policies by requiring medical treatment against the will of a patient.
Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
Alice Giordano is a freelance reporter for The Epoch Times. She is a former news correspondent for The Boston Globe, Associated Press, and the New England bureau of The New York Times.
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