Transfusion debate?

by mjarka911 2 Replies latest jw friends

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  mjarka911

  I wonder if the recent shooting of JW Aaron Davis and his wife in a parking lot will spark any debate on JW's and blood transfusions. Could the shooter's lawyer argue that although he did shoot the two, their lives may have been saved by transfusions. If you hit and cause a minor injury to a Christian Scientist but he refuses the necessary medical treatment and dies of complications...can you be charged with murder?

  A big, white hot national spotlight on this teaching would do some good. Katie Couric or Stone Phillips could really do this one justice!

  Thoughts?
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  Gill

  Whichever way you cut it, it was the shooter's fault. He was carrying the gun and he shot them.

  What if one of them had a weak heart and then died of a heart attack because of the trauma?

  Would that have excused the shooter? I don't think so.

  People are always going to fall out, the good, the bad, the ugly and the JW's. Does that make it all right to shoot them?

  They didn't want blood is not the same as they didn't want to be saved. They did not forbid medical treatment.

  Remember, taking a blood transfusion is not a guarantee that a surgeon will be able to save your life in an emergency. If that was true, there'd be a lot less people in the cemetries.
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  drwtsn32

  Could the shooter's lawyer argue that although he did shoot the two, their lives may have been saved by transfusions.

  He might try to argue that, but the perp used a *gun*. When you shoot one of those at someone, you generally are trying to kill them!

  If you hit and cause a minor injury to a Christian Scientist but he refuses the necessary medical treatment and dies of complications...can you be charged with murder?

  They would have to prove that you were trying to kill them to be charged with murder. You could probably be charged with manslaughter though.