
Rapist in NY Prison Turns Down Heart Transplant
A prison inmate in line for a heart transplant at Strong Memorial Hospital has turned down the procedure. The sister of convicted child rapist Kenneth Pike says he will go without the surgery to end the controversy over him receiving such extraordinary care...The New York Civil Liberties Union says that is outrageous. That it implies inmates are lesser human beings and not entitled to life saving care.
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