This from the ajwrb.org website itself on the 5th paragraph also lays out that there is duress via threat of disfellowshipment. The courts and doctors need to know and since ajwrb isn't going to inform them but rely on some-of-these-days news articles others need to start doing it. The year 2001 was a do-nothing year for ajwrb.org, maybe a single radio talk given at most. So much more needs done. See the blood dripping from the children and babies, the young women giving birth, car accident victims! Read this:BLOOD OATH DEATH RISK
By CHRIS GRIFFITH - The Sunday Mail - March 7th 1999 - page 3. ( www.news.com.au ) Jehovah's Witnesses have been asked to sign a document described as a death warrant. It forbids doctors and hospitals giving the person blood transfusions in an emergency. The church is taking advantage of a new state law which allows adults to give legally binding directions on their health care in advance of illness, even when the circumstances are life threatening. A newsletter accompanying the forms says: "Brothers living near the Queensland border may also want to take advantage of these provisions since they may at some future time receive medical treatment in a Queensland hospital:" All 12,000 members of the adult church in Queensland, have been sent a 24 page form with key answers already filled in. One Jehovah's Witness said signing it was like "signing my death warrant". She said members had been told to return the signed forms to their religious elders or risk "disfellowshiping". However the Jehovah's Witnesses City Overseer for Brisbane, Dale Irwin, denied signing the forms.was compulsory. The church ban on Transfusions was highlighted in December when 18-year-old Tully Ioannides died in the Princess, Alexandra Hospital after refusing 'life-saving treatment. A Queensland Health spokesman said the legal standing of the new health directive was yet to be tested against law it might conflict with, including the Criminal Code. AMA President David Brand said some doctors could face an ethical difficulty witnessing the health directives because they took a Hippocratic oath to save lives.
By CHRIS GRIFFITH - The Sunday Mail - March 7th 1999 - page 3. ( www.news.com.au ) Jehovah's Witnesses have been asked to sign a document described as a death warrant. It forbids doctors and hospitals giving the person blood transfusions in an emergency. The church is taking advantage of a new state law which allows adults to give legally binding directions on their health care in advance of illness, even when the circumstances are life threatening. A newsletter accompanying the forms says: "Brothers living near the Queensland border may also want to take advantage of these provisions since they may at some future time receive medical treatment in a Queensland hospital:" All 12,000 members of the adult church in Queensland, have been sent a 24 page form with key answers already filled in. One Jehovah's Witness said signing it was like "signing my death warrant". She said members had been told to return the signed forms to their religious elders or risk "disfellowshiping". However the Jehovah's Witnesses City Overseer for Brisbane, Dale Irwin, denied signing the forms.was compulsory. The church ban on Transfusions was highlighted in December when 18-year-old Tully Ioannides died in the Princess, Alexandra Hospital after refusing 'life-saving treatment. A Queensland Health spokesman said the legal standing of the new health directive was yet to be tested against law it might conflict with, including the Criminal Code. AMA President David Brand said some doctors could face an ethical difficulty witnessing the health directives because they took a Hippocratic oath to save lives.