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James Liddell

JD Vance’s relative, 12, refused heart transplant over vaccine status

Adaline Deal, 12, has allegedly been denied a heart transplant from an Ohio hospital because her parents refused to get her vaccinated - (GoFundMe)

A relative of Vice President JD Vance says an Ohio hospital has refused to put her 12-year-old daughter on its heart transplant waiting list over her vaccine status.

Jeneen Deal, a mom-of-12 from Indiana who is related to Vance’s half-siblings through marriage, adopted Adaline from China as a 4-year-old knowing the little girl had two heart conditions, Ebstein's anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, that meant she would one day require a transplant.

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