Dying "unvaccinated" woman denied organ transplant wants to take case to Supreme Court of Canada
“I don’t have a lot of time left. I know that.” – Sheila Lewis
This is certainly a case to keep our eyes on as it is potentially precedent setting.
UPDATE 14th November: Please see the additional Fundrazr and other details regarding Sheila’s situation which I have added to the end of this post.
EXCLUSIVE: Dying unvaccinated woman wants to take her case to the Supreme Court
Alberta’s court of appeals affirmed the decision to deny an unvaccinated woman an organ transplant, which doctors say she needs or she will die.
By Mike Campbell • November 8, 2022 • The Counter Signal
A woman denied an organ transplant because she’s not vaccinated against COVID-19 hopes to take her case to the Supreme Court.
On Tuesday, the Alberta Court of Appeal upheld a lower court’s decision to deny Sheila Lewis an organ transplant. Doctors at Alberta Health Services (AHS) told Lewis she must be vaccinated to receive an organ transplant, which she will die without.
Lewis has refused the COVID-19 vaccine because she doesn’t trust it.
“I have to keep appealing,” she told The Counter Signal. “I have to keep fighting.”
“My next move is going to the Supreme Court. But that takes money, and I have no income whatsoever.”
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), which represents Lewis, argued that AHS violated her Charter rights. The appeal court ruled that a doctor’s medical judgment cannot violate a patient’s Charter rights.
“When the ruling came down that the doctors won, that’s when I was taken off the organ list,” Lewis said.
JCCF says the COVID-19 vaccine requirement is premature because the vaccine is too new and still in phase three clinical trials in Canada. The absence of long-term safety data is one reason why Lewis refused vaccination.
“I call it a so-called vaccine. I’m really against it, and it’s not only because I didn’t want to take it but because of what I’ve seen.”
Lewis was shocked by the nine pages of adverse effects Pfizer was forced to release by a US federal judge. Pfizer wanted to keep the information hidden for 75 years.
One of Lewis’ organ transplant doctors testified in court that the doctor had not read Pfizer’s adverse effect documents. The doctor also erroneously testified that COVID vaccines are through clinical trials.
The doctor’s name is under a publication ban to protect their identity amid the controversial matter.
Lewis said she lost faith in doctors when the vaccine rolled out, and her mistrust grew. She asked her organ transplant doctor how safe the vaccine is, and the doctor said, “100% safe.”
Lewis said there was no way she could trust the doctor after that because she knew the vaccines weren’t completely safe.
CDC's own data (compiled by doctors and hospitals and reported in VAERS) confirms more people have died from COVID vaccines in the past 20 months than all the other vaccines in the world in the past 30 years combined!As govt and public health officials continue to dismiss, silence and attack doctors who speak about Covid-19 vaccine dangers, the number of sudden or unexpected deaths of Canadian doctors spikes to a new high of 90. Watch full interview with Dr. William Makis, MD in comments[I am also including the next tweet in the thread with the link to the interview below.]
America’s adverse effect reporting system, known as VAERS, shows that over thirty thousand Americans have died from the COVID vaccine.
In July, Alberta data showed an “unprecedented increase in ill-defined and unknown causes of death” in the province in 2021. Alberta had 3,362 unknown-cause deaths in 2021, compared to 1,464 in 2020 and 522 in 2019.
Lewis was supported in court by testimony from a few medical experts, including one who argued the vaccine could kill her due to her weakened organ.
“I didn’t take it because I thought it would do more harm,” she said. “So I am trying to protect myself.”
Alberta’s COVID statistics no longer differentiate between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.
Most provinces stopped showing vaccinated versus unvaccinated statistics over the spring as cases, hospitalizations and deaths skyrocketed among vaccinated individuals.
Ontario’s government reported, “this comparison is no longer appropriate and may be misleading.”
From April 10-17 among the eligible population in Canada, 222 fully vaccinated individuals died from COVID compared to one unvaccinated person.
The Counter Signal asked AHS what data it relies on to determine that hospitalization and death risks are greater for unvaccinated individuals but did not receive a response.
Evidence supporting vaccination on an Alberta government website points to a Lancet study done by American researchers, including some funded by the World Health Organization and Pfizer.
Lewis is still determining if she’ll be able to raise enough money to take her case to the Supreme Court. Moreover, she doesn’t know much longer her failing organ will hold up.
“I don’t have a lot of time left. I know that.”
I have asked on Twitter if there is a fundraiser set up for Sheila’s legal costs.
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EDIT 14 November 2022:
This is the Fundrazr for Sheila’s legal costs for this precedent setting case. I have just made a donation.
This is the description for Sheila’s Fundrazr created by Jane Scharf of Ottawa:
Sheila a 57 year old woman from Alberta who has been literally fighting for her life as she has less than 40% of her lung capacity and is in critical need of a lung transplant. However, the doctors at the Alberta University responsible for lung transplants have taken her off the donors list because she would not have a C19 shot.
The JCCF Law firm filled an unsuccessful Charter challenge against the doctors rather than the University and the Ministry of Health. The court found that doctors are not bounty to respect Charter rights or rights found in the Alberta Bill or RIghts. The court also put a publication ban to protect the doctors who made this decision to let Sheila die and Sheila cannot mention publicly that she needs a lung transplant.
She has asked the JCCF not to appeal the court decision under the Charter but rather to abandon it and file a new application against the University and Ministry under the Alberta Bill of Rights only. The JCCF has not responded yet.
Sheila will need money for legal expenses to move forward with a better challenge, one that identifies the liable parties using the Alberta Bill of Rights only which does not allow the government to override our God given rights.
In this case Sheila has the right to liberty and security of person (informed consent) as well as the right to be treated equally by the law and protected equally by the law. Under the BIll the Alberta government is prohibited from making categories of persons such as va xed and unva xed and treating them differently.
In addition to legal expenses, although Sheila lives modestly she needs some help with expenses because she is unable to work
There will be full monthly account published here indicated where all monies are spent.
Here is a Rebel article which names the perpetrators: https://www.rebelnews.com/edmonton_hospital_patient_threatened_with_denial_of_life-saving_surgery_unless_she_gets_covid-19_vaccine?fbclid=IwAR0nLuvXbweRkuAbRgb0lHr6t_Dg7ui0B0lNPOe5eZ7zqSNTDiRqf8gqAXo
This article is not under ban because it was public before the ban.
The complete court ruling from that Alberta case is at https://www.canlii.org/.../2022/2022abqb479/2022abqb479.html
There is also an updated message from one week ago:
Some progress
The new premier of Alberta Daniele Smith has announced her government will no longer discriminate against the unvaccinated. She has stated that there will be changes made to the Alberta human rights code to prohibit discrimination on the basis of vaccination status. She has asked all parties who are continuing to discriminate to see synthesis even prior to the human rights changes. Sheila has written to the doctors at the clinic who denied her lung transplant. They’re going to meet with her by zoom on Monday. I’m asking for everyone to pray to God that they’ll do the right thing and allow Shelia to receive life saving transplant.
Please consider making a donation to help Sheila Lewis get the lung transplant surgery she desperately needs to survive.
Thank you for your kind consideration.
I am reproducing below the September 2021 Rebel News article linked in the Fundrazr description above regarding Sheila Annette Lewis as it contains further important background information regarding her situation.
Edmonton woman threatened with withdrawal of life-saving surgery unless she gets COVID-19 vaccine
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) is legally representing Annette Lewis, who has idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a terminal condition affecting both of her lungs.
September 03, 2021
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The University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton has threatened to take a terminally ill 56-year-old woman off of a donor list for a lung transplant because she has chosen not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) is legally representing Annette Lewis, who has idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a terminal condition affecting both of her lungs. Lewis has been suffering with the illness for more than two and a half years and has been waiting for a transplant for over one year. Just two months ago, her lung capacity was at just 40 per cent. Without the transplant, Lewis will die.
Lewis provided the JCCF with an extended recording in which a member of the lung transplant team told Lewis that she will be removed from the transplant list if she refuses the COVID-19 shot. Her oxygen machine, which helps her to breathe, can be heard in the background.
Below is an excerpt from her conversation with the doctor:
Doctor: “All of our pre-transplant patients are going to be required to have the Covid vaccine.”
Annette: “…if I don’t take the vaccine then I go off the donor list, is that what you mean?”
Doctor: “Yeah.”
Annette: “…wow…that’s pretty scary.”
Doctor: “Yeah.”
Annette: “If I don’t get the vaccine, I’m not going to get the transplant, and we all know what the end result of that is for me.”
Doctor: “Yeah.”
Annette: “It’s damned if you do and damned if you don’t in my case.”
Doctor: “Yes.”
Lewis shared her concerns with the transplant team that, saying that while she has received all other childhood vaccinations again, as per the Lung Transplant Program team’s request, she does not want to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at this time.
Lewis shared a number of considerations in her decision to forego receiving the COVID-19 vaccine at this time, including:
1) The vaccines have not been fully authorized by Health Canada. They are being used under “Interim Authorization” in Canada, with human clinical trials continuing until 2023.
2) Covid vaccines have caused notable side effects, including nearly 7,000 reported deaths between December 2020 and June 2021, according to the US Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS).
3) Health Canada has placed warning labels on the Covid vaccines for adverse events such as blood clotting, myocarditis, pericarditis, and Bell’s Palsy.
4) Finally, informed consent is the standard for all medical interventions. The FDA factsheet for the healthcare provider reads, “The recipient or their caregiver has the option to accept or refuse (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine.”Lewis also notes that the Nuremburg Code, which was enacted after WWII following coercive and forced experimentation on captives by German military officials, requires patients to be able to “exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force.”
In a follow-up letter dated August 9, 2021, the hospital advised Lewis she will not get her transplant without the vaccine. This was confirmed again in a subsequent telephone conversation that Lewis had with a member of the Lung Transplant Program team on September 2, wherein Lewis was told that she is “number two” on the donor recipient list but would need to get the COVID-19 vaccine in order to get her transplant.
On September 2, the JCCF wrote a legal demand letter to Dr. Rhea Varughese, Assistant Professor at the Lung Transplant Program at the University of Alberta. The letter demands that the hospital provide confirmation within seven days that Lewis is exempt from any requirement for a COVID-19 vaccine and that she will remain on the double lung transplant list.
Said Allison Pejovic, a Justice Centre Staff Lawyer:
“The hospital’s conduct in making an ultimatum of this nature to a terminally ill patient is coercive and unethical. Threatening a patient’s access to life-saving medical treatment for not participating in an experimental treatment for a condition she does not have and may never get is a profound violation of Ms. Lewis’ human dignity, personal autonomy, and her constitutionally protected right to life, liberty and security of the person.”
Pejovic concluded:
“If Ms. Lewis is removed from the transplant list, she will die. This is a gross violation of her freedom of choice. Having to choose between taking an experimental vaccine that she does not want, or certain death, is not a choice.”
I am going to keep my eye on this case and will provide updates when available.
Let us all pray for Sheila Lewis along with all of the other dear souls who have lost their lives and/or are being mistreated, suffering and denied medical treatment as a result of draconian Covid-19 jab policies the world over. 🙏
So... As a fundamental immunological principle, vaccines are for healthy people, not for sick people. Vaccination, regardless of pathogen or platform, is deliberately designed to be provocative to the immune system. In fact, it is common practice in vaccine manufacture to add at least one component (the adjuvant) whose sole job is to "goose" the immune system further.
Vaccination would be completely inappropriate for someone who is so ill as to need an organ transplant. And that's all before we consider the effects of the immunosuppressive drugs she will need to be on indefinitely post-transplant.
Good luck to her. I hope she finds a way to not need organ transplantation (a grotesque approach to extending one's life).
I wish her all the best and to win. Why would you vaccinate someone so ill anyway?
If it's a vaccine that works on our immune system, then it probably shouldn't be given to someone needing an organ transplant? I might not be a doctor or scientist of any kind, but this just doesn't make sense. I bet there is no confirmed research done of the vaccine and the medication used for people after transplant? I wish her all the best and everyone else in this position.