Stephane: ...if they are not shaken by this...what can we say or do to wake them up?
Nothing. We can't say anything that they will listen to.
However, I think that the WT should be forced, legally, to include all risks and limitations of the alternative procedures that they promote, on the forms that they so lovingly supply.
No other corporate structure, or individual, would be allowed to promote a medical procedure without also being transparent about the risks involved. Nowhere on their forms do they tell the women what risks are involved in taking medications and products that weren't designed to do what the HLC says they should be used for. Almost all of the WT's alternative treatments are used in an "off-label" fashion - the products were not designed to be used for avoiding blood transfusions. They are using drugs designed for conditions that the patient doesn't have - their medical condition is a manufactured one. The JWs have become a high risk blood group based on superstition and fantasy.
The JWs rely on the HLC to give them medical support and yet the HLC do not give them accurate and comprehensive information about the drugs and products they promote.
The only risk that a pregnant JW women is made aware of is the risk of not getting to paradise. They think that they are refusing blood when in actuality, they are choosing to accept experimental use of alternative treatments that have a far higher risk than the blood they refused.
I think pressure should be brought upon the WT to give accurate medical information - they should be forced to list the side effects and risks of the off-label use of the products they promote and they should be forced to be transparent about the clinical trials and such that the JW patients are being used for.
And another thing. There are many documented cases in the medical literature that reveals that a JW patient, when actually faced with the life or death choice of taking blood or refusing it, will often take the blood. This is known in the medical world. It is documented that a person can and does change their mind. Based on that, I think that the HLC should not be allowed to speak to the patient. They should only be available as a consultant to the medical staff - NOT to the JW patient. The patient should be given the opportunity to make their decision on their own. After all, it is their conscience, isn't it?
Signing a noblood card when a person is fit and healthy is entirely different than standing on that decision when it means that you won't be able to hold your newborn baby ever again. The WT knows this and that is why the HLC won't mind their own business.
*to add:
Despite all the coverage, JWs wrap them up in a bundle and convince themselves that they are ALL mislead. That Eloise died of an infection, not blood lost.
That is why the coroner's report is going to be valuable. The JWs can continue to delude themselves but the rest of the world will know different.
