Mexico News Daily: Blood transfusion case before Supreme Court

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  AndersonsInfo

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  Blood transfusion case before Supreme Court

  Mother refuses transfusion on religious grounds for daughter with leukemia

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  Mexico News Daily | Saturday, October 21, 2017

  The case of a Rarámuri woman who has refused blood transfusions for her leukemia-stricken daughter on religious grounds has gone to the highest court in the nation.

  The five-year-old’s mother, a Jehovah’s Witness, refused a transfusion after the child’s health deteriorated but the Chihuahua family services agency (DIF) overruled her decision.

  The state’s deputy prosecutor for the protection of children granted provisional guardianship of the child to the DIF for decisions involving medical treatment.

  But a federal judge granted the mother an amparo, or injunction, against the decision of the prosecutor, ruling that the child should receive a transfusion only after all alternative medical treatments have been tried.

  The judge also decided that the guardianship granted to the DIF was discriminatory, arbitrary and denigrating to the minor’s parents.

  The child’s mother has now taken the case to the Supreme Court of Justice where a judge will determine the validity of the federal judge’s amparo.

  The Rarámuri woman has charged that in overruling her to make medical decisions on behalf of her child, she has been discriminated against on grounds of her ethnic origin and religious beliefs.
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  cofty

  The judge also decided that the guardianship granted to the DIF was discriminatory, arbitrary and denigrating to the minor’s parents.

  The judge is mistaken. The five year old child should immediately be made a ward of court and given whatever urgent treatment her doctors deem necessary to save her life. Childhood leukemia can be treated successfully, her parent's superstitions should be dismissed without a second thought.
  
  
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  Anony Mous

  Unless the courts take charge and put that child in protective custody, the child will probably die.

  This is an entire case over a single treatment. Leukemia often requires more than a few treatments and many involve blood transfusions and at this rate, they will continuously be in court over every technicality not covered by a court order. You let the child back with the parents and they'll probably never end up in a hospital again.

  There is no alternative treatment for these things. I know the judges don't know that, but they should have some doctors review these cases.
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  LV101

  Judges have law clerks that should be reviewing any and all necessary medical treatment for the leukemia any alternatives and preparing documents the judge uses to make his determination/ruling. All judges have law clerks and libraries with all medical info/research under the sun. Why aren't they protecting the child -- the poor child.
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  Lee Elder

  2nd best treatment is something being debated in the ethics community. That is what the WT is after in these cases. Its clearly not in the best interest of the child. Oddly though, the mother isn't even satisfied with this exceedingly generous accommodation from the Federal judge. That is the Watchtower's "undue influence" on full display for the world to see.
  
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  Fisherman

  What the Mexican High Court is not going to do is to let the child die for the religious reasons of his parents versus medical treatment using blood.

  In a medical emergency where a child requires an immediate blood transfusion with no other options available, the child would get the BT because a parent cannot choose martyrdom for a child. The child would become a ward of the state or of some appointed guardianship who would look out for the best interests of the child using blood to try to save the child's life against the parent's religious wishes.

  In this particular case, it looks like Mexico is going to let the parents try non-blood first but if doesn't work doctors will use blood -but maybe it will work.
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  LV101

  I still don't understand the ruling since it's a child and risking alternative treatment.
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  Fisherman

  still don't understand the ruling since it's a child and risking alternative treatment.

  The Court must factor in the parent's legal rights to make medical decisions for the child and religious rights too to some degree that does not cause harm to the child.
  
  
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  LV101

  Parent's legal rights -- I try to understand and I'd want the same but knowing the brainwashed mentality of JWs this is so scary. A poor, innocent, very ill, child's life is on the line. Look how many have died in the past -- not a good track record because of Watchtower.
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  Fisherman

  Parent's legal rights -- I try to understand and I'd want the same but......

  Thats why it's in Court.