On January third a convicted felon was given a heart transplant that cost almost one million dollars. Many people would disagree with Standford medical center seeing that many law-abiding citizens are waiting for a heart transplant and it was given to a felon. On the other hand people may say that convicted felons are human beings and have rights of their own, denying them medical care would be cruel and injustice. The felon was convicted of robbery twice, implying that at least the threat of injury or death to its victims if they don't comply with the robber's demands.
I personally think that there are many ways to look at the crime that the convicted felon committed. Maybe he was stealing to help loved ones? or maybe for selfish reasons. I don't think anyone can know for sure but that still shouldn't keep him from his rights for medical care, he obviously needed the transplant and it was successful. perhaps he was the only person that could take the heart at the time and his criminal record shouldn't get in the way of that, especially when i'ts not a capital crime.
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