Now we just need to be able to sue for misinformation and being misled. From medicine, to education to science and world history....they have outright lied and misled.
http://www.jwfacts.com/pdf/blood-misrepresented-2005-kerry-louderback-wood.pdf
Baylor University, Waco, TX) – An essay entitled, "Jehovah's Witnesses, Blood Transfusions, and the Tort of Misrepresentation," found in the Autumn issue of Baylor University’s prestigious Journal of Church and State, published December 13, 2005, exposes the vulnerability of Jehovah’s Witnesses’ religious organization to massive claims for compensation because of the religion’s misrepresentation of the medical risks of blood transfusions. This milestone essay critically examines one of the religion’s main publications for teaching their children and new recruits about their blood beliefs, How Can Blood Save Your Life? The peer-reviewed essay details many misrepresentations of medical facts, which the religion partly relies on to support its blood prohibition, thus denying its members from making fully informed medical decisions.
*The misrepresentation of secular facts;
*The misrepresentation of
historians’ writings;
*The amplified medical risks of accepting a blood
transfusion;
*The misrepresentation of blood’s necessity and the medical
alternatives to blood transfusion;
*The organization’s current blood policy misrepresents the scope of allowed blood products; and
*The organization’s
blood policy contains contradictions about autologous blood transfusions.
If
members of the religion do consent to a blood transfusion, they are shunned by
the entire community of Jehovah's Witnesses including close family members.
The essay examines the State’s power to protect its citizens by allowing
followers and their families to pursue legal action against a religion when it
misrepresents secular facts which harmed the followers, and suggests possible
avenues to apply the tort of misrepresentation to the Watchtower Bible and Tract
Society, Jehovah's Witnesses' corporate organization, and who publishes
Jehovah’s Witnesses’ literature.
The effect of these misrepresentations
leaves both Jehovah’s Witness members, and medical staff treating them,
ill-advised and Jehovah’s Witness patients more likely to suffer
harm.
According to Jehovah’s Witnesses’ sources, thousands of Jehovah’s
Witness children have died around the world because they refused blood
transfusions; the number of Jehovah’s Witness adult deaths has never been
released, but for every child’s death there are likely to be many adult deaths.
There are therefore a massive number of potential litigants.
The 38-page
essay, entitled, "Jehovah’s Witnesses, Blood Transfusions, and the Tort of
Misrepresentation," is being translated into a number of languages, including
Polish, Norwegian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Italian, German, and
Russian. This important essay was written by attorney Kerry Louderback-Wood
after her own mother, who was a Jehovah’s Witness, died in January 2004 obeying
her religion’s blood ban.
