Radio Interview w/Attorney Louderback-Wood 1/26/08 re: Blood

by AndersonsInfo 34 Replies latest watchtower medical

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  AndersonsInfo

  Attorney Kerry Louderback-Wood will be interviewed on radio, Saturday, January 26th at 4 P.M. PST. It will be a 17-minute interview on the Sean Leslie Show. Sean's program is on 3-5 P.M. Saturday. The subject will be JWs and blood transfusions.

  In the Vancouver area the show can be found on radio station AM 980.

  You can listen on the Internet: www.cknw.com Click on "Listen Live" button.

  Call in your comments at 604-280-9898

  The reason for the intereview is because JWs and blood transfusions are back again in Canada's press.

  Two doctors testified at a court hearing, which began last Monday in Vancouver, that blood transfusions given to the four surviving sextuplets who survived were not medically necessay. I was told both doctors were compensated for their opinion and had long-time connections with JW's although not baptised Witnesses.

  Yesterday and today in Vancouver, cross-examinations of doctors took place who filed affidavits supporting the transfusions of the four surviving sextuplets who were taken from their Witness parents because B.C. doctors believed they would die without blood transfusions.

  http://www.eastottawa.ca/article-cp35173021-Doctor-says-blood-transfusion-seemed-to-be-safest-option-for-sextuplets.html

  Doctor says blood transfusion seemed to be safest option for ... Orleans Star, Canada - 44 minutes ago But the parents, who are Jehovah's Witness, refused to allow the transfusions on religious grounds and the babies were seized by provincial child welfare ... http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hCK_KR30iILR9PXdUf7M3P_H0f-w VANCOUVER - A doctor who looked after a set of severely premature sextuplets in British Columbia last year says blood transfusions seemed to be the least dangerous solution to their medical ills. But the parents, who are Jehovah's Witness, refused to allow the transfusions on religious grounds and the babies were seized by provincial child welfare authorities. The parents, who can't be named to protect their children, now want the B.C. Supreme Court to rule the seizure of the babies was unconstitutional. Neonatologist Dr. Alfonso Solimano testified Tuesday in B.C. Supreme Court that the children's oxygen supply was compromised and the blood-transfusion decision seemed the least dangerous option. He said there were other ways to deal with the dropping oxygen levels in the babies' bodies, but the side effects were much more severe than a blood transfusion. "It seemed the least potentially dangerous problem," he said. "These babies were not healthy." Solimano said the oxygen levels in the babies blood was going down and their heart rates were dropping. "Every way which the oxygen gets delivered to the tissues was being compromised," Solimano testified. Four of the sextuplets survived and just recently celebrated their first birthday. Dr. Robin Ohls, a neonatologist testifying on behalf of the parents, told the hearing Monday that test results on the children showed blood transfusions weren't necessary. Lawyers for the B.C. government argued in earlier hearings that saving the lives of the two boys and two girls superseded the parents' rights
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  daniel-p

  Of course the spin will be that the babies didn't REALLY need blood afterall, and that we should leave things like this in Jah's hands...
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  White Dove

  Are the babies still wards of the state? If so, that would explain "celebrating their first birthday." That was weird. Yes, I know that wasn't the point, but are they with their parents yet or not?
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  AndersonsInfo

  This will prove to be a rip-roaring interview. Kerry is a great debater, so please listen and pass the word.

  Barbara
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  OnTheWayOut

  Marked. I will be at work, but do my best to have it on. Thanks.
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  BluesBrother

  I have read that Canadian Pacific Standard Time is 8 hours behind us in the U.K , which puts it on at midnight for us . I will try, but I hope somebody can put up a recording.
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  carla

  bttt
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  Tatiana

  Will definitely listen, and post elsewhere. I have been talking about this with a JW on another board. He made a big deal out of the one doctor saying it was not necessary, but the article he quoted said that doctor was PAID to testify. I will make sure and post all this info at the other site.

  Thanks, Barbara.
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  AndersonsInfo

  Canada.com article, "Babies' blood transfusions not needed, doctors testify." By Keith Fraser, Monday, January 21, 2008.

  http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=4f79b0e5-8e6e-49ae-8a35-7cdf25f4d4f

  Paragraph 4: Dr. David Burrows, a neonatologist from Ontario, also testified under cross-examination that the transfusions weren't needed to save the babies' lives.

  Paragraph 9: Burrows, a Jehovah's Witness adherent, said he avoids transfusions whenever possible but has authorized such procedures at his hospital. The religion strongly condemns the use of transfusions.

  Chris Christensen, an XJW in Canada, attended all three-days of the hearing. He was privately told that the newspaper's use of the word, adherent,was because Burrows was not a baptised Witness. This information was introduced into the record sometime back so the judge allowed it. Otherwise, WT's Attorney Brady did not want the court to know that there was what some might consider a conflict of interest to enter into the picture. He tried to keep out of the record the information that the physicians testifying in support of the Witness parents who have launched a legal challenge to the transfusions were linked with the Witness organization.

  My informant also told me that the other doctor, Robin Ohls, a neo-natologist researcher from the University of New Mexico, was said also to be an adherent, but that information was not permitted to go into the record. I was told she attends Memorial and Witness conventions, etc. However, that tidbit needs additional fact-checking.

  Interestingly, the physicians who transfused the babies said that if they had to do it again, they would do exactly the same thing because what they did was standard medical procedure in the case of extremely premature infants. One of these physician's handwritten notes went into the court record which showed that the babies' hemoglobin count was going down and that's why the decision to transfuse was made.

  There will be more information coming out when the hearings continue in the near future.
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  Tatiana

  WOW....thank you so much for this info. This is a HUGE help.

  I'm also going to use some of this info for Dennis' case (the 14 year old who died) Lots of us are writing letters to the judges, newspapers, and state senators about his case. We've learned that Dennis was not even allowed to see his girlfriend or any non-witnesses during his hospital stay.