Parents say disabled NJ girl was denied transplant

[LeftyMom]

16. There are never enough organs. I hope nobody who isn't a registered donor is complaining.

There are a lot of problems with the way that transplantation lists are administered (I have personally complained about them before, having a few relatives with heath problems that might put them on transplant lists someday,) but as long as there's a shortage of organs, not everybody who needs one will get one. Denying somebody is always going to seem unjust, because everybody deserves a shot at life, but in a scarcity somebody's always going to have to do the cold equations and determine who's got the best chance of a long healthy life with that new organ.

There's always a particular shortage of organs for children, because thankfully children tend not to die and leave organs lying about. That's not likely to change either, especially as safety advances mean that otherwise healthy children aren't dying in preventable accidents at nearly the rate they used to, reducing the donor pool.