A Jehovah's
Witness mother was rejected for accepting blood to save her life.
This is the so called "pastoral care" given by Watchtower
leaders when a member violates official policy. While the exact circumstances surrounding this particular case are not known, its bears noting that these so called "Bloodless Surgery" centers are often staffed and managed by active Jehovah's Witnesses. If this was the case, and said members turned her in to the elders, they would have violated her medical confidentiality. The article is in
Italian, and a slightly enhanced Google translation to English
follows:
Jehovah's Witness accepts a blood transfusion: She was nearing death.
Rejected by the community: They took my daughters. Grazia has chosen life, but
this has cost her the affection of her daughters. Grazia Di Nicola was a
Jehovah's Witness who chose to get away from the community after the harassment
received for undergoing a transfusion, prohibited by their beliefs, in order to
survive after surgery. The woman is a 48-year-old housewife, mother of four,
lives in Colliano, a village in the province of Salerno. Her belief, however,
almost caused her to die. After an intervention was necessary with transfusion,
and she agreed not to die. An unpardonable sin for her church, so much so that
Grace found herself humiliated by her "cult brothers". It was she who introduced
the religion into her home, even against the initial resistance of her husband,
convincing everyone (husband and then children) to attend meetings, convinced
that that belief was the only possibility of salvation. When fighting against a
tumor in 2016, she choose a clinic that guaranteed she woul not be transfused,
but she lost a lot of blood, and the transfusion became necessary for survival.
Grazia choose to live, but her choice was not forgiven by the elders, and her
three daughters then repudiated her. Today the woman is living a real drama.
After undergoing numerous humiliations to be re-admitted to the community after
the transfusion, she decided to leave, but in this way she lost her daughters
who no longer recognize her as their mother, and accuse her of having betrayed
Jehovah. The daughters, except the male son who remained close to her, as
FanPage also reports, live in the home of an old man and do not seem to want to
regain a dialogue with the woman who is desperate not only because of the
distance from the girls, but because she fears for their safety within the
sect.
https://www.leggo.it/italia/cronache/testimone_di_geova_trasfusione_sangue_grazia_di_nicola-3812660.html