Teen with six months to live being kept off heart transplant list because of prior behavioral issues as civil rights groups label the decision a 'death sentence'

"The family of an Atlanta teen claim that doctors at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta have condemned him to a 'death sentence' because they will not place him on the transplant waiting list.

Suffering an enlarged heart, Anthony Stokes, 15, has only six months to live, but his hospital said last week that because he has failed to take his medication in the past, this history of 'non-compliance' rules him out.

His outraged family and civil rights groups claim that this is not the whole truth and say that it is Anthony's low grades at school and brushes with the law that mean Children's Healthcare will send him home from hospital with no hope of survival."

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