Jehovah’sWitnessesChildren-AdolescentJehovah’sWitnesses: what Rights?

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    Community child health, public health, and epidemiology
    Children of Jehovah’s Witnesses and adolescent Jehovah’s Witnesses: what are their rights?
    S Woolley
    Postgrad Med J 2005; 90: 715-719. [Abstract] [Full text]

    [Abstract]:

    Archives of Disease in Childhood 2005;90:715-719
    © 2005 BMJ Publishing Group & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health


    ETHICS

    Children of Jehovah’s Witnesses and adolescent Jehovah’s Witnesses: what are their rights?

    S Woolley

    Correspondence to:
    Dr S Woolley
    Bristol Royal Infirmary/Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol, UK; [email protected]

    ABSTRACT
    The Jehovah’s Witnesses Society (JW), a fundamentalist Christian sect, is best known to laypersons and healthcare professionals for its refusal of blood products, even when such a refusal may result in death. Since the introduction of the blood ban in 1945, JW parents have fought for their rights to refuse blood on behalf of their children, based on religious beliefs and their right to raise children as they see fit. Adolescent JWs have also sought to refuse blood products based on their beliefs, regardless of the views of their parents.

    sKally

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