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Denial of transplants for undocumented immigrants sparks hunger strike. Should they be allowed the surgery?
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A group headed by a Salvadoran-born priest are completing the third day of a hunger strike to protest the refusal by two Chicago hospitals to perform organ transplants on unauthorized immigrants who lack health insurance.
"We're a little weak but we're not going to lift the measure until the hospitals agree to talks," Father Jose Landaverde told Efe Tuesday.
Several Latinos with relatives in need of transplants have joined Landaverde in staging the fast at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Anglican Catholic Mission, a church located in the largely Mexican neighborhood of Little Village in South Side Chicago.
They include 35-year-old Mexican Lorenzo Arroyo who, along with his brother, 37-year-old Elfego, is in need of a kidney transplant.
The two siblings and their oldest brother, 39-year-old Francisco, all suffer from a rare illness known as amyloidosis that they inherited from their late mother, who passed away two years ago.
Francisco, the only one of the three with his papers in order, received a transplant through the usual channels.
[link to latino.foxnews.com]
Any thoughts? Anyone agree with denying them life saving surgery because they're undocumented?
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