Preventing medical care for your children for religious reasons...
By MommieMoney
@MommieMoney (102)
United States
February 7, 2007 8:45pm CST
Some of you may have heard about the sextuplets that were born in Canada to a Jehovah's Witness family. Three of the babies were taken by the Canadian Government to administer blood transfusion. The babies may have died without them and the JW faith does not allow this. So the parents were just not going to let them have the blood transfusions. Two of the babies have already died and the government took these other three in hopes of saving them.
On another board I was on I saw women saying that the government had no right to do what they did. I definitely do not agree. The government had every right to step in. Allowing your children to die for the sake of your god is child abuse. The JWs accept many other medical procedures. This woman even took hormones which resulted in her having the multiple birth.
What does everyone think about this?
1 response
@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
8 Feb 07
Most of us will not see this to be logical. In fact, if we take a good view of the Bible, there is not one verse to support this belief of the jw's. I am in one view with you that government can always step in in cases like this. After all, the step being undertaken is to save lives rather than to see lives being wasted away.
You may not believe this, but there was a case quite long ago (I cannot recall the year it happened, sorry) here in the Philippines, when a sick man was made to undergo blood transfusion. Little did the hospital folk knew that he was jw. When the relatives knew of this, they sued the hospital for its action. According to them life is for God to give and withdraw. It seems they kind of believe that blood transfusions intervene with life by lengthening it. Absurd, instead of being thankful, they are infuriated.
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