There is no such thing as a "Jehovah's Witness child". They are simply children of parents who are Jehovah's Witnesses.
That is an awesome remark. SO true. I didn't CHOOSE to not have medical treatment. Someone else chose to withhold it from me.
A baby to be sacrificed on the alter of Jehovah thwarted by New Zealands High Court.
by smiddy 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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steve2
The New Zealand newspaper The Sunday Star Times stated that the ruling gives certainty to both sides: The medical team know they can commence the necessary treatment without any legal impediments and the parents know the likelihood of their daughter surviving is now significantly increased.
This is certainly a new slant compared with those awfully unhinged stories published in Watchtower publications of the 1970s when witness parents took extreme steps to bodily remove their children from hospital care that involved the prospect of blood transfusions. No more kidnapping one's children in the dead of night. And, best of all, the people who mean the most to you - members of your home congregation - will not disapprove of you, but pat you on the back, saying "You did your best"
What a transformation nowadays! As a JW parent you still get to decline consent for your child to have transfusions because you know that the medical team will automatically apply to the Courts so you ineffectually accept the Courts will step in and allow the medical team to give transfusions if needed. As close as any loving parent can get to having your cake and eating it too.
Kind of like, how to make a stand when you don't really need to make a stand because the Court will protect your child anyway. How clear this is that the modern breed of JW parent probably silently wishes the Court will allow transfusions so these stressed parent are not seen as violating their religious beliefs and getting into all sorts of trouble as a result with the local elders.
In my opinion it is bizarre that it takes a secular law to protect an innocent child from the lunacy of its parents' religious beliefs and the parents - underneath it all - appear accepting that their daughter now has an increased likelihood of not only surviving but thriving.
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Captain Obvious
Good. I hope the little girl grows up into a beautiful, intelligent apostate.
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smiddy
Konceptual99 : Point taken , your right.
Thank you all for your comments.
One thing though , nobody commented on the hypocrisy of jehovah`s witnesses being able to accept blood fractions derived from blood donated by other individuals which contradicts their beleifs.
Their spirit directed governing body allows this practice .
smiddy
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Phizzy
Steve2's perceptive comment above is correct, and I think this situation is approved and has been engineered by the Legal advisors to the GB, a GB who know full well that the Blood doctrine is wholly wrong, and have been for years trying to reverse out of it, so as to avoid litigation if they simply dropped it in one go. Its all about the $$$.
The scandal is that, as a number of JW's are involved in huge blood loss in emergency situations from time to time, the resultant delay whilst surgeons and trauma teams seek legal advice can result in the death of the patient.
Here in the U.K if the person has clearly expressed their aversion to any particular, or perhaps all, medical treatment, and they are an adult, and have or had sufficient capacity to make the decision, then the Ethical and Legal guidance is that they be allowed to end their life, even if they are mentally unstable.
(I happen to think this position is Ethically wrong).
Hence, even the much watered down, muddled, hypocritical, present Blood Doctrine will still take lives.
How do the GB sleep at night ?
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steve2
Hypocrisy is the right word, smiddy. Witnesses are allowed to exercise their individual consciences in deciding whether to take medical treatments derived from fractionated blood - commonly sourced from multiple blood donors. Yet, Witnesses do not have the freedom of conscience to decide whether to donate blood that is so fractionated. This is hypocrisy of the most wilfully selective type:Free to choose to take, but not free to give.
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zound
JW's are moskitoes.