Apr 26, 2023
Emory University has refused to provide a lifesaving kidney transplant to a 41-year-old mom of seven homeschoolers because she is a Christian who refuses to violate her religious beliefs. The story I want to share is profound and moving. Read on. — Mat
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Janessa Jenkins* is a passionate follower of Christ. This 41-year-old mother has dedicated her life to serving her family, homeschooling her seven young children to ensure they, too, learn to love and serve the Lord.
Janessa developed sudden-onset, late-stage kidney disease and has had to undergo dialysis three days a week just to keep her alive until a new kidney can be found. She was approved, and then removed from the list — for one reason. She does not want to violate her religious convictions over this shot. We are literally engaged in a battle against time. The outcome is life or death for this homeschool mom.
Janessa never took the COVID jab, as her deep faith prevents her from taking any drug linked to the abomination known as abortion. Besides, she already had COVID, and her antibody test showed that her immunity is high.
At first, staff at Emory University Hospital of Atlanta approved Janessa as “an acceptable candidate” for a kidney transplant knowing Janessa had not received a COVID shot. However, after another consultation with additional hospital personnel, the evaluation process was stopped when a social worker told her they could not continue if Janessa did not plan on receiving the COVID shot.
But religious freedom isn’t the only issue preventing Janessa and thousands of others from refusing the COVID jabs. Dangerous and life-threatening side effects from the COVID shots continue to be revealed. In fact, Dr. Ryan Cole, a Mayo-trained, board-certified pathologist and owner of the largest independent diagnostics laboratory in Idaho, is finding an alarming number of large blood clots that have appeared since the COVID shot rollout. He said these seem to be present only in people who have received the injection.
The blood clots are not what one would normally think of a clot. Rather than a small clot the size of a BB, these clots are long, worm-like, and some stretch several inches or even up to several feet long. Cole Diagnostics processes and reports approximately 40,000 blood and biopsy patient samples annually. Dr. Cole’s lab is able to determine the difference between a spike protein caused by the virus and a spike protein caused by the COVID shots. The spike proteins are demonstrably different and much more pronounced and serious with the COVID shots.
As a result, many people who have received the COVID shots are now experiencing myocarditis and other heart issues, along with a host of other serious, even fatal, conditions.
Emory Healthcare is violating the cornerstone of all medical professionals to “first do no harm.” It is also unconscionable to deny anyone a religious or medical accommodation from an experimental injection, especially for someone who needs an organ transplant. Emory should be ashamed of its actions and reverse this unreasonable policy. These shots are neither safe nor effective and are all associated with aborted fetal cells. Emory needs to do the right action immediately and allow this woman to receive the kidney she needs to save her life.
Liberty Counsel supporters offer the unthinkable ...
Shortly after I first wrote about Janessa last week, we received responses from people praying for Janessa. But that’s not all — several of our supporters offered to donate their own kidney so that this brave Christian mom of seven may live. One female and one male both said they were moved by her story and felt God directing them to reach out to see if they are a match. We have put them in contact with Janessa.
Who does that, you might ask? Who risks months of pain and recovery time to help someone they have never met before? Followers of Christ do that. Liberty Counsel supporters do that.
John 15:12 explains why: “This is My Commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
I am so honored to stand alongside you in this continued fight to preserve religious liberty, and I am humbled by the great love our supporters are showing to Janessa and one another as we continue in the battle. Please, be in prayer for Janessa and our team as we battle for this young mom’s life. Janessa is one of 75 active organ transplant cases we are currently handling among our many other cases.
Since 1989, Liberty Counsel defended life, religious freedom, and the natural family in courtrooms across America and before the U.S. Supreme Court where we have achieved multiple precedent-setting victories. We never charge for our services because few could afford to defend themselves against tyrannical governments and corporations that are intent on erasing religious freedom.
WE WILL NOT STOP UNTIL AMERICA’S PRECIOUS LIBERTY IS FULLY SECURE!
Thank you for loving liberty and God’s precious children as much as we do!
Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
*Name changed for privacy.
Sources:
“Emory Healthcare Refuses Transplant for End Stage Kidney Patient.” Liberty Counsel, April 20, 2023. Lc.org/newsroom/details/042023-emory-healthcare-refuses-transplant-for-end-stage-kidney-patient.
“Pathologist on Ryan Cole on the Mystery Blood Clots.” Rumble. Accessed April 25, 2023. Rumble.com/vxeqvu-pathologist-on-ryan-cole-on-the-mystery-blood-clots.html.