Judge Over-Rules Parents To Allow Blood for Baby Boy

tim hooper

Doctors from Birmingham Children's Hospital applied for an order to give the baby boy blood transfusions

A High Court judge has said a baby boy can undergo blood transfusions despite his parents' objections.

The baby has complex heart disease but his parents, who are Jehovah's Witnesses, said they could not consent to a transfusion on religious grounds.

Birmingham Children's Hospital had applied for an order to proceed with cardiac surgery and transfusions.

The judge, Mr Justice Keehan, heard the boy had no "long-term prospect of survival" without the surgery.

'Best interests'

The boy was born at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire on 7 February and placed in special care. He was transferred to intensive care in Birmingham the following day.

Although the baby's parents had agreed to surgery, they said they could not consent to their son receiving blood.

However, Mr Justice Keehan said receiving blood was in the boy's best interests, notwithstanding his parents' "understandable objections".

In a written ruling following a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London, he said: "I entirely understand and sympathise with the stance of these parents."

However, he added: "It is in [his] best interests to receive blood products both during the surgery and, if necessary, subsequent to it."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-26420908

Phizzy

I equate JW parents attitude with that of those Islamic parents who impose Female Genital Mutilation on their little girls.

I suppose really a better parallel is with those parents who make their children be suicide bombers.

There should be no such thing in people's thinking as a Muslim child , Jehovah's Witness child or a Christian Scientist child, they are simply kids with parents who hold untenable beliefs.

The child has the right to life, and then in adulthood can choose her of his own way and actions, nobody should take away that right.

You gotta know that these parents are absolutely thrilled by this ruling. All parents, even JW parents, want their children to have the absolute best chance to survive a major surgery. The judge did these parents a huge human kindness by taking this decision out of their hands. I know of at least 2 young couples that had the same thing happen to them here in California. Their children survived and are now very healthy and florishing. One of the couples admitted to me that they know that their child would have died if the court had not stepped in. They told me that they were very relieved and that they could "blame" the system for violating God's law on blood. (LOL) Amen!

A substitute CO and his wife once told my wife and I a similar story of their very best personal friend's child that had to have open heart surgery and the court stepped in and "forced" a blood transfusion. Both the CO and his wife in a subtle way admitted that the child would have died without the "forced" blood transfusion. Thank God!

Just saying!

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sir82

To a certain extent, I think it is a sort of game that the WTS and JW parents are happy to play.

A baby needs blood. The parents pretend they object, forcing a judge to issue a court order, and the baby's life is saved. The kid lives, the parents are happy, and the local elders don't have to disfellowship the parents for saving their child's life.

All of this is just to put on the appearance of "sanctity".

Of course, some fanatical JW parents might be "crushed" to have to follow the court order, but I'd say well over half are not that fanatical and are just happy to have their kid again.

And of course the WTS benefits - they highly value prestige in the eyes of the world, and too many "child dies because parents refused to give blood" headlines become an embarrassment.

Frazzled UBM

This charade is a waste of court time. How does an organisation which shuns parents for agreeing to a life-saving blood transfusion for their child get charitable status?

Crazyguy

Sweet, someones got to care for the children. If I was the judge I would have made the parents read matt.12:7 "we desire mercy not sacrafice" probably the whole chapter then asked, if anywhere in the history of the bible can you find where god wants his people to sacrafice themselves to him?

Phizzy

The main problem arises when an older "child"is able to parrot the stuff that has been drummed in to them. Here in the U.K, if they can do that, the Judge will say that they have Capacity, and will rule their wishes are to be upheld.

This is outrageous nonsense, the child has been raised in a mind-controlling cult, they have no concept of the reality of their position, and no knowledge of alternative points of view, and more accurate appreciations of what the Bible is really saying.

To let anyone die in this parlous state of ignorance and error is bad enough, though present Ethics and Law allow it in the U.K for adults, it is totally wrong if it is concerning a child.

BU2B

When I was talking to my wife, I told her the courts take the blood issue out of the parents hands. She said if they did that she would sue. That's tough talk, but I believe and hope she would feel differently if her child was staring death in the face. This JW cult has more blood on their hands than all the other cults in the worlds history combined. I loathe them.

Separation of Powers

Thank GOD!!!!

quellycatface

Thank God for our justice system.

Hope the little lad makes a full recovery.

I also pray his parents wake up to the TTATT.

Judge Over-Rules Parents To Allow Blood for Baby Boy

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