Under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, health care providers are barred from discriminating against patients based on disability.
Denying a person the right to life, by denying a life saving organ transplant, based solely on a diagnosis of autism is clearly a major civil liberties and human rights issue.
These choices are not made based on the health of the person. They are made based on a subjective decision about what they believe about quality of life.
Many of the denied patients are children showing great aptitudes of intelligence that have the use of alternative communications, are able to make choices, and feel love. These children are being discriminated against with a decision that is grounded in no medical justification for refusal.
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