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Mom Says Mentally Impaired Tot Heartlessly Denied Transplant

Amelia "Mia" Rivera has Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, a circuitous abiogenetic ataxia that causes brainy and concrete impairments, and her ancestors said that the 3-year-old will die if she does not get a branch in the abutting six months to a year. Mia's mother Chrissy Rivera has said the ancestors is accommodating to accord a alive organ, but Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has reportedly told her that they will not acclaim transplantation for the toddler because of her disabilities. Rivera blogged about her daughter's plight aftermost Friday, and now added than 20,000 online supporters from 15 states are petitioning the hospital to accord the toddler the branch they say she needs to survive. "I didn't anticipate it was activity to be an issue," said Rivera, a 35-year-old aerial academy English abecedary from southern New Jersey who has two added children, age-old 11 and 6. When the ancestors went to CHOP aftermost anniversary to altercate the