JW teen allowed to transfer to New York hospital (Canada)

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  • ezekiel3
    ezekiel3

    Source: http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=2ced5108-1b2a-489c-942b-cfd45cf22d18

    B.C. teen who is Jehovah's Witness allowed to transfer to New York hospital

    Greg Joyce
    Canadian Press
    Wednesday, May 18, 2005

    VANCOUVER (CP) - A British Columbia teenager being treated for cancer and in a legal battle due to her Jehovah's Witness beliefs has been transferred to a hospital in New York City for chemotherapy treatment.

    In statement issued Wednesday, her lawyer, Shane Brady, said the girl was transferred to Schneider Children's Hospital from Children's Hospital in Vancouver.

    The transfer came after a B.C. Supreme Court ruling Tuesday that allowed the transfer based on an agreement reached between the director of child, family and community service, the teenager and her parents.

    The statement said the family and the ministry would not have any further comment. Brady, whose office is in Georgetown, Ont., could not be reached for comment.

    The teen, who is one of Jehovah's Witnesses, chose to go to New York but needed consent of the director and a court order to be free to make the transfer," the statement said.

    The New York hospital has a "blood avoidance program" aimed at avoiding or minimizing the use of blood in treating their patients.
    Jehovah's Witnesses believe that blood is a sacred source of life not to be misused or tampered with under any circumstance.

    The teenager, who turns 15 next month, was in a court in Ontario earlier this month trying to get a different result than one she received in a B.C. court earlier.

    But the Ontario judge said he did not find any fault with Justice Mary Boyd of the B.C. Supreme Court, who ruled April 11 that the girl, because she is a minor, could not refuse transfusions if doctors deem them medically necessary.

    The girl's lawyer said at the time his client wanted to get the Ontario court to consider the evidence of Schneider Hospital in New York, which has experience in treating cancer like the girl's without using blood transfusions.

    The girl and her family want to receive the chemotherapy for osteogenic sarcoma at the New York hospital.

  • Quotes
    Quotes

    Thanks, Ezek.

    I wonder what is up with this NY hospital. Are they a real hospital, or just a bunch of quacks?

    Interestingly, I read in another post that this other hospital will still transfuse, if it becomes necessary (even by their standards) so she could get transfused anyway.

    I hope she recovers her health (either with or without transfusion) and goes on to adulthood and realizes what a crock of cr4p is Watchtowerism.

    ~Quotes, of the "wondering why Shane Brady can't be reached for comment" class

  • hawkaw
    hawkaw

    My concern is that they family has worked this deal but the child is in another jurisdiction.

    I wonder if counsel for the WTS conned children services that the child will take a blood transfusion if necessary and let her go to New York with that understanding.

  • SHUNNED FATHER
    SHUNNED FATHER

    All the WTS wanted was to get this girl out of the jurisdiction to prevent her from receiving a blood transfusion. I am afraid that she may be the latest victim of the WTS Blood Policy. Would anyone from the New York area please inform the Media in New York about this case and watch the news and post what happens. The WTS will try to keep their dirty work as quiet as possible. If the WTS has their way this little girl will die and no one outside the organization will hear about it. Let us not let that happen.....contact the media today. Anyone there willing to go to the hospital or WTS HQ and protest ?

    Lawrence Hughes

  • Sam Beli
    Sam Beli

    bttt

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