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So they’re ok with getting operated on but cannot receive blood transfusions?
Reminds me of the woman who wanted an organ transplant but not the Covid vaccine (she was ok with every other required vaccine for the transplant because propaganda)
They don't take issue with medicine or surgery, just blood that originates from another. This stance is based on their interpretation of scripture. They've also really began to pick and choose, as science has advanced. Typical Christian nonsense.
You know it's possible to donate blood to yourself before a procedure. I've seen this Jehovah witness no transfusions thing several times but no one ever brings up using your own blood.
People do that. But that won't help when you get in an accident and didn't have time to donate beforehand
Sure but this seems to be a planned procedure rather than emergent. Also you get into areas of implied consent during emergencies.
Let them die if that's what they want.
We do, but parental control over minors' medical procedures becomes a huge issue here. If a 16 year old wants a lifesaving transfusion some places allow their parents to refuse it for them on religious grounds. The same applies to younger children as well.
Meh I was just being needlessly angry and annoyed. I don't think we should let people die like that. Especially kids. Life saving treatment should never be up to the parents to decide, except in some very specific cases. Once they turn 18 they can make their own decisions, but fuck everything about putting your personal beliefs over your children's lives and health.
In this instance it was the 16 year old child themselves refusing, and the hospital determining that she had capacity to do so. That's why they went for a court order, so the decision and liability wouldn't fall on them.
Only further goes to show that I should read the fucking article before raging, and then instead of raging stay rational. I give enough shit to others for doing precisely that. :/
from what I've heard from "genetically modified skeptic" (someone who grew up in an isolated fundamentalist christian community with homeschooling and now has changed and makes youtube videos about his experiences) the indoctrination is so serious and deep that many can't escape it even as an adult, even with mountains of evidence, even when it would be to their benefit to drop old beliefs, and so i believe it's not really their fault if they turn out to be hateful and dangerous people. even if they were at fault, i still don't necessarily want people to die for misguided beliefs. I'm still debating whether that kind of compassion should also work for people like trump, vance, kirk, thiel, musk, etc. but imo it should work for regular religious fanatics.
Let's not punish children for having morons as parents
She's a child grown and conditioned entirely in the restrictive cult, knowing only what the Elders and her conditioned family taught her - the beliefs are hardly her own, let alone her medical choices. Poor kid is just one of thousands of victims of the Witnesses' doctrines.