Even though she has stage 5 kidney disease that puts her at risk of dying without a new kidney, Lutali, 56, said she could not agree to be vaccinated because of the role that stem cells have played in the development of vaccines.
While any type of surgery may stress a patient’s immune system and leave them vulnerable to contracting COVID-19 later, organ transplants recipients are even more at risk because they have to take a powerful regime of drugs to suppress their immune system to keep their body from rejecting the new organ, which is seen by the body as a foreign object, Nancy Foster, AHA’s vice president for quality and patient safety policy said in a statement.
Cleveland Clinic recently decided to require COVID-19 vaccinations for both transplant recipients and living donors, the organization said in a statement. Roman Catholic leaders in New Orleans and St. Louis went so far as to call Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 shot “morally compromised.” J&J has stressed that there is no fetal tissue in its vaccine.
“It’s really what’s best for the patient at this time and from a societal perspective as well,” she said. “The more patients that get vaccinated, you know, we have better outcomes.”
Her body. Her choice. Her consequences.
I read the story and don’t understand why this woman of faith, and at 56 would even consider getting a precious transplant. Why doesn’t she accept her fate/nature take its course and consider to let someone who is going to take care of it have it?
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She is too at risk...the doctors aren't stupid.
Fantastic news. The unvaccinated should be denied ALL access to medical facilities but this at least is a start.
Now do a story on all the people denied organ transplants because the hospitals were full due to unvaccinated people with Covid.
Is she planning to vet the organ donor? What if the donor was pro-choice, or had an abortion? Will she refuse it?
Currently her body's ability to deal with normal stressors is compromised because she needs the old kidneys replaced, yet she isn't vaccinated and hasn't already died of Covid or other pathogens? Who in the hell does her housekeeping? They deserve a lot more business!
Just curious, what religion is anti-vax but pro-organ transplant?
Good.
Very curious which religious views allow a person to have someone else's kidney installed into their body but does not allow them to receive a tiny vaccine injection
“Stem cells were used in the vaccine” HOW DOES SHE THINK THE KIDNEY WAS CREATED
She made her bed, she needs to lie in it.
What the hell kind of religion is that?!
What religion is opposed to vaccinations but not kidney transplants? This is more click-bait about a radicalized person than news.
Lets see if Ivermectin and alexjones will fix her bad bean.
Someone explain to me why her religious views forbid vaccination but allow organ transplant.
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Who cares at this point?
ap your site is absolutely unusable on an Android phone.
Charger0843Rion I'm ok with it.
Religious views prohibiting vaccines also prohibit surgery. Hope this helps
What kind of religious views allows transplants but ban vaccines?
Excellent! There is no legitimate religious objection. If your religion tells you not to care about others enough to protect them from your silly silly beliefs, you don't get a few pass. And in passing, the world will become a bit safer, which is a sad truth. GetVaccinated
What religion doesn't allow vaccination but does allow organ transplant ?
What religion would allow an organ transplant but not a vaccine?
Let me get this straight, you can’t get vaccinated because of your religious views but you can put someone’s organ in you body. Make it make sense.
This is pretty standard for transplant centers, and there is no actual religion that is against vaccines.
lorac328 Good for the hospital!
wow some of the logic here goes so sideways. to me it's obvious what science is but these arguments are just weird.
If your religious views prohibit vaccines then they most likely prohibit organ transplants. The medicine u have to take during the operation, after the operation is way harder on u than the vaccine. I've seen that with my family member who had a kidney transplant.
If one doesn't have the measles vaccine onecan be denied a transplant. If one doesn't have the DPT shot one can be denied a transplant. Vaccines have been a requirement since long before covid, and new vaccines have been added to yhe list before covid.
She doesn’t deserve it. Let god take care of it.
She is willing to accept a transplant from someone, and not a vaccine? It’s like getting the transplant and refuse the drugs that prevent the body from rejecting the organ! Give it to those deserving. Maybe she can accept a Covid transplant organ.
GQPdeathcult
This is not unusual or a surprise no matter what amount of bullshit cloaked in outrage that Fox News tries to sell you.
Having firmly held religious beliefs isn't supposed to be without consequences. If they are without consequences, there's no point in having them.
“Next!”
Good. 👏👏👏
Wait till she finds out the amount of testing anti-rejection drugs undergo using the HEK293 immortalized cell line which is derived of tissue from a legal abortion performed in 1973
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What do the democrats love to say? Is it jeep your laws off my body. Do you not understand that the vaccine is largely ineffective? So stupid
Good. Makes sense. She made her choice. Move on to the next one in line.
It’s not just the covid vax she’s required to have but y’all won’t put that in your headline
Sounds about right.
“Colorado woman refusing to complete pre-surgery safety requirements is denied an organ transplant.” There. I fixed it for you.
As it should be.
There is no religion against the vaccine.
So she CHOSE to not get the transplant. That’s your headline.
How does her imaginary friend feel about suicide?
Oh shit! Are they denying alcoholics liver transplants too?
Trumpism is a religion now?
They won’t give liver transplants to alcoholics because they will just ruin that one. An unvaccinated person on organ transplant immunosuppressives is at extrodinarily high risk of death if they catch Covid. Why waste the effort?
They weren’t kidneying around this time.
There aren't enough organs available for all the people who need them. There will always be some group who are denied a transplant. We will always be choosing certain people over others.
I think you’ve already been told: SHE WAS NOT DENIED!!! She CHOSE to NOT accept the terms of a transplant!!! Get it together over there!
If you won’t do the bare minimum to take care of a transplanted organ they aren’t going to waste one on you. Duh.
Didn't realize Stupid was a religion
AppleRiverBnB There are never enough organs to meet the need. Transplant teams must choose the patients who have the best chance of survival so as not to 'waste' a desperately needed organ. Being unvaccinated in the middle of a pandemic doesn't meet the criteria. Sorry. Her choice, her loss.
Maybe her religious views will replace her kidney.
Huh. Did you make any noise at all over hospitals putting intellectual disabilities on the list of conditions that got you lesser COVID care? Bc that’s actual discrimination. This is not.
Soooooo you’re cool with dying from the 19, but you’re NOT cool with dying from kidney failure? Got it, makes perfect sense actually
If she were to get a transplant, she would be required to take a lot of meds she would not know about. No vaccine her body her Choice, but every choice we make has a consequence.
Transplant patients are at HIGH risk of catching Covid. They are not going to waste an organ on someone likely to lose it and refusing to follow orders.
Tell her to get the goddamn shot and stop whining.
Why even post this article. Of course inoculation from a communicable disease is required!!!!!
Oh well.
Please show us the religious views that deny someone a vaccine but approve organ transplants. It would seem to me, “God” gave you a faulty organ and 🤷♀️. YoureScrewed
Good!
Her religion blocks a vaccine but not an organ from another person?
This was not a problem fascism before the vaccine came on the market, it was just a kidney change when needed. What is different? People can still have the test taken.
Which religion will allow a transplant but not a vaccine? Just saying…
Good. Pass it to the next person.
Then she better start praying for God to fix her kidneys. There are plenty of people on that list that actually take their healthcare seriously.
COMUNISTAS, hijos de perra, donde está la ética y el juramento que hicieron malditos, claro se ve que es solo un maldito negocio. 😡😡😡
Precisely so. Someone gave up a kidney so she could have it and live. The least she should do is try to protect that precious gift. If she can't do that then she doesn't deserve it.
I suppose she never uses any of these either.
Kidney transplants for people unvaccinated is risky business. The risk of a fatal infection is increased many fold. Unvaccinated, she would very likely lose her life- and lose the kidney. Many wait years for the kidney that can save their lives, and she would destroy it and die
But a transplant is not against her religious views?
Wait. Wait. Wait! Her 'religion' is ok with an organ transplant, but not a simple vaccination? Sure. Ok.
I’m a kidney donor having given one of mine to my son in 2005 and I support this message. NoVaccineNoTransplant
Good.
Make sure to update us when she dies.
But her religion views a transplant differently somehow?
Good. Give it to someone who really wants an extended life. It's a no brained.
Oh well
She had a choice. Did her beliefs save her? Doubt it!!! All bs
God will save her. 😳
Sooo…. She’ll let the doctor’s put somebody else’s kidney into her body, but doesn’t trust them enough to take the vaccine? Makes perfect sense.
Listen, if god wanted her to live, he would not have made the woman so stupid.
Yes, you should be vaccinated against a disease which has a high chance of acutely injuring your transplanted kidney, especially considering nobody understands why.
Isn't the job of transplant teams is to choose the most viable candidates for transplant.
This is the 'find out' phase of the trade.
Translation: patient unwilling to comply with transplant requirements chooses to waive chance at transplant.
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So hold up she tried to get a transplant when she have a religious accommodation for the COVID vaccine. 😂😂😂 fraud
On the other hand, the AmericanMedic10 states in its standards of conduct (the essentials of honorable behavior for physicians) that a physician shall support access to medical care for all people (see 7 below).
If she won't follow the rules for something as simple as a vaccination, she will never follow all the rules and requirements to avoid kidney rejection after the transplant. Don't waste a viable organ on her.
It's a mad world 😐
The fact that she is willing to put a foreign organ in her body but scared of the vaccination is telling.
good on to the next person that will do things to prevent themselves from getting something that could kill them with their brand spanking new kidney. common sense. its like drinking after getting a new liver... you wasted it
What would her religious exemption be, anyway? I am unaware of any except 'Christian Science'.
This is what we have come to...if her religious beliefs do not allow vaccinations, they certainly do not allow her having someone else's organs transplanted in her body
It’s her right not to get the vaccine.
Good!
She has no religious views. Her loss I guess.
Humm, risk death by getting vaccinated because you have a bad liver or risk death by not getting vaccinated because you have a bad liver.... Sounds like a wonderful choice to me! Idiots!
Why should a valuable organ be wasted on someone who is willingly putting themselves (and others) at higher risk of contracting covid a potentially fatal disease?
Religious right are condemning their congregations to death believing a hypocrite preacher .
I don’t see this as she’s being denied. She denied that kidney herself with her choices.
Oh well it is what it is in the words of trump
Ok. Good on them. If that lady doesn’t want her transplant then give it to the next person in line. Why is this news?
No Christian faith has come out against the vaccine. Nice try.
lmao L
So will take someone else's kidney to prolong her life plus all the immune suppressive medications, antibiotics, painkillers but draws the line at an approved vaccine to prevent her from catching Covid & dying shortly after her transplant because of Covid conspiracy theories?!
The sheep are everywhere
Because she is at higher risk of death. Give organs to people who will most likely survive.
Perfectly reasonable
...and..?
What religious views? Does anyone care to ask her to explain? Has she ever gotten other vaccines?
This has been happening for decades yet you report on this like it’s breaking news
'Lutali, who does not belong to a denomination, said she does not live in fear of dying because of her belief in the afterlife.' So why was she seeking a transplant in the first place? If god's plan is for her to have kidney disease, why play god and use science to thwart that?
Great policy! It would be a waste of a good kidney.
What religion doesn't allow vaccines? The answer is no religion. At all.
Good!
Better headline: Colorado woman doesn’t really want to live, but gets her lifelong wish of being on Faux News granted by the Make A (Petri) Dish Foundation, corporate charity of Faux News.
Good. Give the kidney to someone more responsible & takes care of themself. If she can’t take care of herself by getting vaccinated, then she isn’t taking care of herself enough to warrant a kidney.
And?
Her religion is not Christianity, like she claims. It’s ignorant Trumpism.
HarrisonKrank That is fucked.
They also don't give livers or lungs to alcoholics or people who refuse other vaxxes too. Sorry n shit 🤷♂️
HarrisonKrank removed my organ donation check mark, thanks
Imagine refusing a vital organ transplant because you are rejecting the type of science that has allowed us to live longer, healthier lives. This makes me feel significantly better about my bad days…
The YouTube doctors are apparently declaring that you should be able to receive a scarce organ even if you do none of the long set requirements for receiving said organ. Getting necessary vaccines have always been part of the process.
If she's really against the vaccine for 'religious reasons' then she'll also be against taking the required post-transplant drugs for the same reasons. So why give her a transplant that her body will just reject?
You receive immune suppressive drugs after a transplant. It makes sense to be vaccinated instead of wasting a good organ on someone who has a 20% more chance of dying because they want to be an idiot.
I agree they should be vaccinated (and being a Christian has nothing to do with vaccines…) but honestly, UCH would have probably denied her for another reason if not this one. My brother was denied a kidney from them for over a year, even after I donated mine for him /1
Organ donors have to do very specific things, including vaccination. This isn't new. Don't fulfill a requirement? Denied.
It is clear that many don’t understand transplant triage. 🙄
give the kidney to someone who really wants it, not someone trying to make a political statement. the religious argument is horse shit.
Let's just stop the nonsense, ya think? Help that woman . Jeezzzz
Well now, if she's Catholic and gets vaccinated, then all she has to do is go to confession, and save her own life, isn't that how these things work?
Healthcare is not guaranteed in the US.
Nazi medicine
My friend’s mom just died from lymphoma which was likely triggered by the drugs she had to take because of her kidney transplant a couple years ago. Bet she doesn’t care about that risk.
Immunosuppression means that even the vaccinated won’t have protection. But for some reason immunosuppression is being used to argue for enforced vaccination.
Stupid people!
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As it should be. Organs are rare and if you wont take a simple vaccine your a poor risk. Uncle got a transplant and before he did he was vaccinated again
She has the freedom to make that decision. Why is this news?
Lol
I agree. Organs are hard to get so why waste one on someone who is not even going to protect themselves against COVID.
She was denied because without the vaccine she would likely die if she gets covid because of all the immunosuppressive meds she’ll be on. Then the donor organ- which is in short supply- gets “wasted”. Someone else could’ve benefitted instead. Not political.
“Due to her religious views” is just an excuse for “because of her political views”. Religion has become the go-to justification to do or refuse to do anything they want.
If she is willing to save her life with a transplant but not a vaccine, is her religion that picky?
This totally makes sense. You cannot possibly expect to receive a transplant when you refuse to take a vaccine that will prevents you from catching and passing COVID to others. It's straight up Science people. It's straight up sCIeNcE!
Religion allows transplants but not an immunization. B Ship high in transit.
So there are no religious views for organ transplants?
next!
Great news. Save the lives of hospitalists.
I would assume someone else’s kidney in her body goes against her religious beliefs too
The patient identifies as a born-again Christian. She is lying about having religious views that prohibit vaccination. If she were a Christian Scientist or Dutch Reformed, her religious views would be against vaccination -- but then possibly against getting a transplant, too.
Deny her!! Religious views is another excuse to be in the Cult-Club.
This is why she can’t have nice things.
So your religiously ok with a kidney transplant but not a vaccine.
WhT religion is that tho?
Reuters. Stop. Giving. Antivaxxers. An. Audience. The hospital didn't give you this story, the patient did. This is normal protocol, not a shocking violation of rights. Be better.
Maybe she can pray for a kidney and see how that works out 🤡
Explain exactly which religion doesn’t allow a vaccine but allows a kidney transplant. That smells like a load of BS to me.
That's fair. Sorry.
But her religion doesn’t say science is bad to trust them for a transplant. Good.. I hope this keeps happening for everything! Get the vaccine and stop listen to the far-right spokespeople that have the vaccine but tell you not to get it.
Good. Jebus is her vaccine. Sayōnara
As it should be. Untill enough of the anti vaxers are inconvenienced it won't get to the herd thingy.
That's not really news. There's no way to be sure there's no covid in the new organ and after transplantation, the woman would be on steroids. So if she catches covid, it's gonna be game over very quickly. So she has to be vaccinated.
I wholeheartedly agree.
She’ll take a kidney but not a shot?🙄
Tough one but what if the kidney is “wasted” and she dies of Covid?
Aren't alcoholics denied liver transplants? If you're life choices make it unlikely you'll survive, then you aren't considered a good candidate. They don't have an unlimited supply of organs...
What religion? Unless she’s a legit Christian Scientist (which is bogus anyhow) she’s out of luck
Well I guess it's time to see just how caring your God.
Her “Christian Faith” in that she doesn’t believe in the vaccine because of fetal tissue, and yet the J&J vaccine does not have any, and she won’t get vaccinated. She does not belong to any organized religion. She just signed her own death certificate, let her live with it.
Welcome to the end times lady your religious views may cost you your life but great is your reward in heaven for holding steadfast in your faith
Wait just a dang minute. Her religion says no to a little vaccine but getting someone else’s whole damn kidney is fine
Well, smokers go to the back of the line for lung transplants and alcoholics go to the back of the line for liver transplants. So, it seems appropriate that is she won’t take basic steps to protect her health, why should she get a kidney?
Que Sera Sera.
Give the kidney to someone who believes in science.
What's next Lifeguards who refuse to save drowning people cause they're unvaxxed? How about firefighters? Police?
Well then Bye Philisha!
So does this mean I can donate my organs to people who are unvaxxed? Will that be an extra box to mark now?
Like clockwork. These are unserious people. I’m not sure why I would run to Fox News & give an interview such as this. Sounds quite performative to me.
You to get an abortion first to qualify for transplant
Requiring transplant patients to be vaccinated has been the norm long before Covid.
A religion that's good with organ transplants but not vaccines?
Talibanization can't be fixed easily. Years of brainwashing for profits.
Good. Her religious beliefs don't outweigh public safety.
KrisandBugachi
It’s funny that her “religion” allowed her to harvest organs from dead people. This woman only uses religion as an excuse when it fits her agenda.
She took the “what hill would you die on” to the next level…
These gestapo bastards are going to kill people because they want to control us we need to stand up against this tyranny and do lie Demonrats do if they won’t give us services we demonstrate in the street and stop their commerce and livelihoods too damnit
Thoughts and prayers.
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the kidney transplant is to preserve your life the vaccine is to preserve your life and others what religion accepts one and not the other
People who get liver transplants also can’t drink. People who get heart valve transplants can’t do IV drugs. We don’t give organs to people who won’t care for their health. There’s someone else in need of it who will. Religion will let you get a transplant but not a vaccine? 🙄
If she doesn’t believe in doctors and science why was she even on the list? “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.'Matthew 17;20
Hahaha nice fuck em
So are they going to let her die. This is coercion and blackmail
Let ém learn or let ém die.
This is horrible! Human rights where are you?!
She must not want that kidney much!
I think that is sick now we're acting like God and make the decision if you don't you're not getting anything and that's not right y'all done lost it just a little bit
So the vaccine is against her religious views but a kidney transplant is not
And kidney transplants aren’t prohibited by the cult? Very selective these science things that are verboten by the christians.
Ok now. Your religious views keep you from getting a covid vaccine but allow you to get a kidney transplant? Uh yeah, right.
God forgive US.
Thoughts and prayers
WajahatAli Surely she must have a religious exemption against transplants as well.
I work in a federal prison that specializes in dialysis, so should we also not give dialysis to all the inmates that chose to do drugs and are in renal failure If you follow that narrative, be prepared to deny healthcare to the masses!
Religious views allow organ transplant but no vaccine? Sounds suspicious. There are anti-reject drugs required post op also.
Did the Nazis deny medical treatment to the Jews in WWII ?!?
And this is America. WTF!!
Why would everyone go through the risk of a transplant when the patient is at high risk for Covid infection? This risks her life and destroys the kidney. There may be someone else who follows vaccine protocols who could benefit when a kidney comes available.
Go meet ur maker, bish.
Wow there’s a lot of antivaxxers that don’t understand how transplants work.
No one should be denied a transplant but the headline vaccination against religious belief - surely receiving someone elses kidney would also fall under that category!!!
She chose poorly
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That's 💯 the way it should be. What is the point of giving someone a healthy kidney if they are going to be Completely susceptible to Covid_19 & could die just in a week or less unless they are protected by the vaccine?
Aww, sky daddy doesn’t give a shit if you’re vaccinated. He didn’t even bother to keep the lady’s kidneys working.
Euthanasia is a personal choice and is still illegal. So therefore Denying healt care to anyone is an outright Criminal Act As for those of you who think it is okay to let her die N who wish her bad are nothing but abominable creatures. Christians-Religious creatures I'm sure.
Did her religious views also denied kidney transplant If not why not
Good.
It’s so disgusting that they’re doing this, which beyond that it’s wrong at any level to this, we so often forget COVID has A 99.7% survival rate and everyone that wants to be vaccinated is already vaccinated
She must feel good then-Next!
Medical tyranny
WajahatAli I think that she doesn’t have a valid argument. Stem cell research can be done without the loss of any human life. She doesn’t understand that operation warp speed is the reason it is available at all in abundance. 🤔🤨😷🇺🇸
As they should. Those who want a transplant need to read the rules. Covid is especially dangerous for immunity compromised, which any transplantee would be. If he/she isn’t vaccinated, the organ likely would go to waste.
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She doesn’t need a transplant if she has god. If he chose that her kidneys should not work, it’s his will. She can just pray.
The Onion and the AP collide.
I am waiting for a liver transplant. Transplant centers want to give the patient the best chance to survive. Not getting the vaccine puts her life & new kidney in harms way. It is difficult to get a new organ and should be given to someone who does everything to protect this gift
WajahatAli which religion?
Lol I hope praying works out for her
Doesn't the same religion that is against vaccinations also against blood transfusions and organ transplants? Gonna be stupid for a religion, gotta be all the way stupid right?
Makes perfect sense. Why would a hospital risk wasting an organ on a host, where the host may not have long to live? 🤔
WajahatAli GTFO with religious views
I’m sure sky daddy will fix her kidney.
Aw, you wanted to write a sensational headline, but at the last minute remembered to report the actual news.
The only religious group that Im aware of, that might ban vaccination, is the only one that would also deny organ transplant: Jehovah Witnesses. This of course does not account for crazy pastors who havent read their bibles.
This is no different from when people on transplant list refuse to quit smoking. Others who are doing all the medically right things take priority.
Didn't yall know she's apart of that new trump religion
No sympathy. They'd be wasting their time and an organ on someone who is undeserving and who would die shortly thereafter because she would be SO immunosuppressed any bug could kill her, let alone Covid.
So she won’t get vaccinated but wants a kidney transplant? Which involves tons of medication and probably a blood transfusion. Are people getting stupider each day?
Why does this article fail to mention who the donor is? It's a fairly significant detail in this particular case.
Good.
This is beyond ridiculous.
Communism at work. Total bs.
Religious views my ass
Lung transplants are denied to smokers too. If the patient can’t take his health seriously, why on Earth would the hospital & doctors… especially when many organs are scarce?
1st, that's discrimination. 2nd, that's segregation ( Now illegal in America ) 3rd, that's Premeditated murder.( if person dies because you denied life saving procedures ) 4th, that religious discrimination ( also against the law )
'Religious Views'.......Maga Kush LOUUUDDDDDDD
Meth dealer goes to prison/dies in a deal gone wrong Man rides motorcycle without a helmet, dies in an accident from a head injury Woman smokes cigarettes, all her life, dies of lung cancer Man eats bacon and ice cream for breakfast, lunch and dinner, every day, dies. 🤷♀️🤷♂️
If you aren’t vaccinated against COVID, your risk of mortality is much higher than if you are. So it makes little sense to give an organ to an unvaccinated patient, especially when the demand for those transplantable organs is much greater than the supply.
She has faith, should not fear death and should look forward to the kingdom of heaven. Alternatively, she could just get vaccinated and have a kidney transplant...
I am going to take a guess and say that the drug cocktail she would have to be on after the transplant probably has ties to stem cells somewhere along the line.
What religious views say surgery is ok but a life-saving vaccination is not?
What religion wants you dead?
People in the comments acting like this is political when, in all reality, she was probably denied because those who are unvaccinated are considered high-risk, which unqualifies you to receive any kind of transplant.
Which religion prohibits vaccines but allows organ transplants?
The hospital has set requirements, she refused to meet them, so the kidney will go to someone who will. But, when she's on her death bed, I'm sure all she'll be thinking is, 'Wow, so glad I didn't get that vaccine!' 🙄
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