An Australian court ordered the parents of a cancer-stricken child to put aside their religious beliefs and allow her life-saving treatment including a blood transfusion.
Countless unnecessary deaths have resulted from the Jehovah’s Witnesses cult’s unbiblical teachings regarding blood transfusions.
A three-year-old boy can be given a blood transfusion during surgery despite religious objections from his Jehovah’s Witness parents, the High Court in Ireland has ruled.
Jehovah’s Witnesses, theologically a cult of Christianity, promote un-biblical teachings regarding blood and blood transfusions.
Ireland’s High Court has made an order allowing the Coombe Hospital in Dublin to carry out an emergency blood transfusion on a baby girl born prematurely last week.
The baby, who weighs less than one kilogram, was born to Jehovah’s Witness parents, who have refused to agree to a blood transfusion should it become necessary.
A life-saving blood transfusion was administered to a critically ill baby under a court order secured by a Dublin hospital at a late-night hearing in a High Court judge’s home.
The child’s parents, members of the Jehovah Witness faith objected on religious grounds to the procedure.
Another Jehovah’s Witness has died after refusing a blood transfusion.
Members of the religion, which is considered as theologically a cult of Christianity misinterpret the Bible as forbidding blood transfusions — resulting in numerous needless deaths.
A hospital has won the right to give a child potentially life-saving blood transfusions despite the religious objections of the boy and his family.
In a South Australian legal first, the Supreme Court this afternoon gave the Women’s and Children’s Hospital the right to give a 10-year-old boy – a member of the Jehovah’s Witness faith – transfusions as part of his cancer treatment.
Jehovah’s Witnesses are taught that passages of the Bible forbid blood transfusions. Members who do accept such treatment can be cast out of the church.
Many Jehovah’s Witnesses carry a signed and witnessed advance directive card absolutely refusing blood and releasing doctors from any liability arising from this refusal.
Legal representatives for a Jehovah’s Witness have abandoned an appeal into what is believed to be the first instance in Ireland where a court ordered a blood transfusion to be given to an adult against her will.
Doctors at Coombe Hospital in Dublin had obtained a court order allowing them to give a blood transfusion to a women who lost eighty percent of her blood when she haemorrhaged after giving birth.
A Jehovah’s Witness being treated at St. Vincent’s Medical Center was administered a blood transfusion despite his explicit request not to be given that procedure, which violates his religious beliefs.
In the lawsuit Geyer filed in Superior Court, he contends he has suffered extreme emotional and physical trauma as a result of the transfusion.
A Jehovah’s Witness who survived a shooting in which her husband died is believed to have refused a blood transfusion during surgery to save her life.
Amanda Hustler is being treated at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth for two gunshot wounds to her back