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High Court rules premature baby must be given blood
by kwr inhigh court rules premature baby must be given blood
[published: monday 24, december 2007 - 18:09] the high court has ruled that a premature baby must be given a life-saving blood transfusion, despite the objections of its parents who are jehovah's witnesses.
mr justice george birmingham has directed that the transfusion be carried out only as a last resort and when no alternative treatment is regarded as viable.
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Black Friday and JW's
by kwr inis a jw allowed to shop on black friday as long as it isn't a christmas gift?
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Harold Camping Denies Hell as a place
by kwr inharold camping is the president of family radio and recently on his open forum program he denied that hell is a place.
he also has set dates for the return of christ the first was in 1994 and now he says it will be 2011. he also states that the end of the church age has come, but he has weekly meetings that are not church.
does this sound familiar to anyone here?
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If we really lived by the rules of the bible
by kwr inhttp://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/books/603143,jacobs101407.article.
within the first months of trying to live by the rules of the bible, a.j.
jacobs started carrying around a portable seat so as not to sit after unclean women (leviticus 15:20).
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Studies: Stored Blood Lacks Nitric Oxide
by kwr inhttp://ap.google.com/article/aleqm5htx1lzeakgd18t0qrvijfab09iiwd8s59u780.
washington (ap) much of the stored blood given to millions of people every year may lack a component vital for it to deliver oxygen to the tissues.
nitric oxide, which helps keep blood vessels open, begins breaking down as soon as blood goes into storage, two research teams report in separate studies in this week's online edition of proceedings of the national academy of sciences.. .
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Sextuplets' parents win right to question doctors, social workers
by kwr inhttp://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=99379acb-f9bb-4567-98b7-57f4ffdaf72e&k=10523.
vancouver - after several legal bids, lawyers for the parents of canada's first sextuplets have been granted the right to cross-examine the doctors who approved their blood transfusions.
"it took us a while to get there, but we're happy," said lawyer john burns.
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Province denied parents fair hearing, lawyers say
by kwr inhttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/lac.20070830.bcsextuplet30/tpstory/national.
vancouver -- the government was in such a rush to give transfusions to premature sextuplets last january that it denied the jehovah's witness parents their .
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Knocking Documentary Update
by kwr inknocking chosen for "real films" series the "real films" screening series, sponsored by documentary alliance, has chosen knocking as its featured film for the month of september.
the houston-based group screens notable documentary films each month.
knocking will be shown in houston on friday, september 28, 2007. filmmakers joel p. engardio and tom shepard will attend and answer questions from the audience.
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The Internet message lives forever...
by kwr intoday by postal mail i received a letter asking about some software i offered back in 1994 via bbs.
luckily for the person that wrote me i have it on a web page for downloading.
i never imagined i would get a request for that software 13 years later with the original message i posted!