Jehovah's Witness parents of sextuplets suffer another legal loss.

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Jehovah's Witness parents of sextuplets suffer another legal loss.
Jun, 19 2007 - 2:30 PM

VANCOUVER/CKNW - Another legal loss for the Jehovah’s Witness parents of sextuplets born in Vancouver earlier this year.

The couple is taking the BC government to court over a decision to seize the children in order to perform blood transfusions, something doctors felt medically necessary, but forbidden by the family's religion.

The BC Court of Appeal has upheld an earlier decision, in which the court ruled lawyers for the parents could not cross examine doctors on affidavits explaining why they felt the transfusions were required.

When it goes to trial, the parents' lawyers will argue doctors ignored alternate treatments which would have negated the need for the babies to receive blood.

Junction-Guy

Cha----Ching

Mary

When it goes to trial, the parents' lawyers will argue doctors ignored alternate treatments which would have negated the need for the babies to receive blood.

What idiots.......Only the truly braindead are stupid enough to try and sue someone for saving their kids' lives!!! Actually, I'm glad this is being kept in the public's mind as people are just stunned and disgusted at the Witnesses for this..........bloody morons.

garybuss

This isn't the parents doing this, it's Georgetown.

jgnat

Yeah, they've milked as much sympathy and legal precedent out of the Bethany Hughes' case.

http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b143/humanrights/JW-Child-Rights/index.html

Highlander

This is great stuff.

Keep up the good work WT morons.

Who in their right mind would take legal action against someone or something for saving their child's life? Only the j-dubs! idiots.

Scully

doctors ignored alternate treatments which would have negated the need for the babies to receive blood.

and the WTS lawyers received their medical degrees from..... ?

Shane, did they teach you how to do rectal exams in the kitchens at Bethel too, or Glen teach you that in the Legal Department?

sass_my_frass

What does the company think they'll get out of this? They can't believe that they'll get the precedent they want, by suing doctors for taking action that was intended to save a babies life, surely? It obviously hasn't occurred to them that every time this is in the press, the public doesn't start thinking: "those courageous JWs, there they are again upholding religious rights", they just keep thinking: "those insane fundie freaks, they're angry that a doctor tried to save their babies."

Gill

Not actually having access to these babes medical records, but as far as I'm aware these babes did not receive blood transfusions immeadiately and it was several weeks before it was deemed NECESSARY. Only the babies that needed blood were given it, so how can they argue that the doctors tried nothing else. No one could say it was an unnecessary procedure, no one in their RIGHT MINDS that is!!

This is so sad to see parents involved in persecuting people who are saving the lives of their children. They must rue the day they asked for the HLC members to help them with their babies!!

Shame on the WAtchtower Bible and Tract Society and its minions!!

Maybe God doesn't demand child sacrifice but the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society definitely craves blood on its altar!

Mary

Sister Scully said: Shane, did they teach you how to do rectal exams in the kitchens at Bethel too, or Glen teach you that in the Legal Department?

Hmmmm.............Me thinks this would make a good Watchtower cover.

Gill said: Shame on the WAtchtower Bible and Tract Society and its minions!! Maybe God doesn't demand child sacrifice but the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society definitely craves blood on its altar!

Remember that picture in the old Paradise book that showed some pagan offering their baby to the alter of that god with the head of a bull (I think?) Why does that come to mind when I read cases like this I wonder........

Jehovah's Witness parents of sextuplets suffer another legal loss.

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