Dying girl, 10, spurs fight over lung transplant fairness

May 29, 2013

The parents of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who has waited 18 months for a lung transplant are waging a fierce fight to change an organ allocation regulation that they say is keeping their desperately ill daughter from the life-saving treatment she needs. But organ transplant experts say there’s no way to bend the rules for Sarah Murnaghan in a system designed to guarantee fairness to all patients — not just one. (NBC News)