by liam 6 Replies latest watchtower medical
Here is a great story about a disfellowshipped man who fought his in laws, his wife, and his wife's boyfriend, and other Jehovah witnesses, in order to win custody for his son...........AND WON!
You will like the outcome.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1he2emz/i_used_the_blood_shunning_issues_to_win_custody/
I read it on Reddit! Great experience for him, gaining full custody of his son is remarkable! More and more exposure of their toxic teachings is very important in the courts! The more public information available is awesome! And these judges are being educated on these terrible policies that harm people.
And these judges are being educated on these terrible policies that harm people.
People are becoming aware!
So are entire Countries like Norway.
This is the reason the Watchtower is changing long entrench policies like men not being able to wear beards and woman pants.
Sooner or later the Blood Doctrine will also be gone. It's just a matter of time.
"Sooner or later the Blood Doctrine will also be gone. It's just a matter of time."
I share your hope and admire your optimism. The blood doctrine is very, very heavily entrenched. The legal ramifications of changing it are probably insurmountable.
I doubt that they are yet going to do what many have suggested, that is, to not mention nor enforce the blood doctrine and just let it quietly die. Why? Because the ****ing HLCs still exist. They still send people to hospitals to try and ensure that a person needing a transfusion dies. Those sick bastards wallow in this stuff!
Even if they do the obvious thing that proves that they are moving away from the blood doctrine, that is, disband the HLCs, it will achieve little. Why? Because the JW congregations are probably somewhat full* of people like the mother-in-law of the story. The R&F will continue to practise the blood doctrine because they haven't been told not to. It's still going to be doctrine in their minds right up until it officially isn't.
*Okay, I'm not an attendee nor a practitioner, so I have no idea how many gung-ho anti-blooders there are in any given JW congregation, but there must be quite a few.
Because the JW congregations are probably somewhat full* of people like the mother-in-law of the story.
In another 10 years, most of those hard-core jws will be gone. And the left over ones won't matter. Most of the young born jws will leave to live a normal life in the next 10 years. Most are PIMOs for sake of parents.
Remember that in the annual meeting the GB said that anyone one can now repent at the last minute and be saved.
That still hasn't sink in most young jws.
Give them a little time as the Watchtower continues to come apart.
Perhaps those who still attend JW services can shed some light on the subject. But I heard that in most cases, unless the congregation has nosy elders, the blood issue is "don't ask, don't tell."
Since most states in the USA have patient privacy laws, a JW who needs one can have a blood transfusion without the elders ever finding out.
HIPPA laws prohibit the elders from inquiring on who took what for medical prescription/ treatments.
Because disclosure on treatments can lead to someone being sued.
Along these lines??
Maybe someone can acknowledge this who's more up to speed on this!!
