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According to Awake!, "Misae Takeda, a Jehovah's Witness, was given [a] blood transfusion in 1992, while still under sedation following surgery to remove a malignant tumor of the liver." On February 29, 2000, "the four judges of the Supreme Court unanimously decided that doctors were at fault because they failed to explain that they might give ...
BBC News - Refusing blood 'source of regret' Critique of Jehovah's Witnesses' blood policy by Raymond Franz, a former member of Jehovah' Witnesses' Governing Body; Ethical Issues in Compulsory Medical Treatment: A Study of Jehovah's Witnesses; Jehovah's Witnesses teachings on blood Archived April 16, 2021, at the Wayback Machine from ...
Jehovah's Witnesses view of meat and blood is therefore different from the Jewish view that goes to great lengths to remove even minor traces of blood. [122] [123] According to lawyer Kerry Louderback-Wood, a former Jehovah's Witness, [124] the Watch Tower Society misrepresents the scope of allowed fractions.
Jeevanandam's program has hired bloodless coordinators to oversee the bloodless heart transplants and other procedures and verify to the Jehovah's Witnesses community that surgeries are done this way.
Since Jehovah’s Witnesses are not allowed to accept external blood products, their view on organ donation is complicated by the medical procedure itself. [8] Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that organ donation with no transfusion of blood is an individual decision. [2] [10]
R v Blaue (1975) 61 Cr App R 271 is an English criminal law appeal in which the Court of Appeal decided, being a court of binding precedent thus established, that the refusal of a Jehovah's Witness to accept a blood transfusion after being stabbed did not constitute an intervening act for the purposes of legal causation.
"Most of the time our ethical conversations are simpler." The girls were 22 months old when they were brought to Boston for surgery from an east African country where their family faced religious ...
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -California's attorney general on Monday sued a Catholic hospital accused of refusing to provide an emergency abortion in February to a woman whose water broke ...