Greetings, Pork Chop,
You don’t have to look far to find this stuff. Following is a link to a news story about a medical retrospective review of 332 Jehovah's Witnesses who gave birth at Mount Sinai Medical Center (NY) from January 1988 through December 1999.
According to the article, 2 of the 332 JW women died from obstetric hemorrhage, corresponding to a rate of 521 deaths per 100,000 live births--a maternal death rate nearly 44 times higher than that among the general US population.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011108/hl/childbirth_1.htmlHi, Path,
I agree wholeheartedly. It is criminal to deliberately keep viable alternate scriptural views from the rank and file JW by not writing about them openly in the same journals they use to indoctrinate the masses with.
Hello, Cygnus,
JW deaths from adhering to the party line rarely make news beyond the local paper, if there. Also, hidden in the numbers are the JWs whose deaths were attributed to auto crashes, cancer, et all, when the real culprit was following an indoctrinated partial blood abstention. This really hits home when you are a congregation elder asked to comfort grieving parents or children knowing perfectly well that Brooklyn Bethel avoids answering tough and telling questions about their absurd doctrine. It leads to outrage, and action!
Unfortunately JWs are such a statistical "flea," and the Watchtower has done a pretty good job marketing themselves as decent, that crusaders do not embrace the fine fight of uncovering the partial blood abstention policy for what it is, a murderous act of organizational self-preservationism.