WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) launched another investigation into President Biden’s overhaul of the federal government by filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to obtain records related to the Department’s apparent intention to make organs for transplant available based on the race of the recipient, not medical need.
Pursuant to President Biden’s “equity” Executive Order that infuses racial grievance politics into every aspect of the federal government, HHS is unlawfully injecting race and national origin into the Health Resources and Service Administration’s (HRSA) Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN).
On January 27, 2022, the HRSA announced it was changing how it would report data on organ transplants to provide more detail about the racial and ethnic background of transplant recipients. And, on March 22, 2023, HRSA announced a “Modernization Initiative,” including a “plan to strengthen…equity…in the organ donation and transplantation system.” However, using race and national origin as criteria for organ transplants is patently illegal under the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984.
The Biden Administration appears to be attempting to push a breathtakingly racist overhaul of the nation’s organ transplant system all in the name of “equity.” No American should be denied a lifesaving transplant because of the color of their skin. America First Legal will continue fighting Joe Biden’s destructive, illegal, and racist “equity” agenda.
Read the FOIA here.
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