by ILoveTTATT 27 Replies latest jw friends
I am deeply upset every time there's someone in the news who has died because of the stupid and immoral blood doctrine.
I would like to make a website documenting every single instance of a news report of someone dying from lack of a blood transfusion, and to keep track of it. That would give some data on the real and current incidence of deaths due to the blood transfusion doctrine.
Is there already a website like that?
Also,
I would like to know if there's a way to look into newspapers and make a historical review of these newspapers for these news. Perhaps even "JW dies because of rejecting organ transplants" or "JW dies because of rejecting vaccination"...
But Mr Justice Peter Jackson gave doctors permission not to administer blood transfusions to a 63-year-old woman who was a Jehovah's Witness.
The woman had subsequently died.
Doctors working for Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust had asked for permission to withhold a blood transfusion.
They said the woman, who had been a Jehovah's Witness since the 1970s at least and had a history of depression and paranoid schizophrenia, was "gravely ill".
Mr Justice Peter Jackson said that when doctors made the application the woman had "clearly lacked" the mental capacity to make or communicate decisions about treatment.
But the judge said that after being admitted to hospital the woman had been "adamant" that she did not want treatment with any blood products.
He concluded that the woman had made a decision, when she had the mental capacity, that doctors rightly considered had to be respected.
The judge said the human right to life was "fundamental" but not absolute. He said there was no obligation on a patient to accept life-saving treatment and doctors were not entitled or obliged to give treatment.
jwblood.org and jw-blood.org are available
Try the official website of the Associated Jehovah's Witnesses for Reform on Blood: www.ajwrb.org
Resources management librarian Stephen Schmidt recommends two notable books this year from established British novelists who seem to have found their footing once again. Ian McEwan and Martin Amis are old masters at the game. But their past few novels have left something to be desired. Not so this year. McEwan's "The Children Act" is an engaging novel about the private sorrows and life-or-death decisions faced by British High Court judge Fiona Maye . While dealing with her husband's infidelity she also is forced to decide the fate of a teenage Jehovah's Witness. He needs a blood transfusion or he'll die, but his faith and his parents are preventing him from having it. This is another classic McEwan story of reason and science over religion.
This is a novel but it would be cool to read
http://www.straight.com/movies/739011/viff-2014-quebecs-ensemble-drama-miraculum-impresses
Another cool fictional story involving JW's and blood
The end result would look something like this:
Just from a couple of hours or research, I got to see at least 6 confirmed deaths in the news in the past 9 months, and at least 12 children for whom doctors ordered blood transfusions.
What if we had a database like this:
First time in Australia a person was on trial for manslaughter for refusing a BT for his newborn child.
