JW women are between the fronts. IIts to consider they are heavily influenced by J W family and obidience not only to personal conscience but very much to obidience to the WatchtowerSociety-HLC.
You may also wish to contact the hospital liaison committees established by the Watch Tower Society (the governing body of Jehovah’s Witnesses) to support Jehovah’s Witnesses faced with treatment decisions involving blood. These committees can advise on current Society policy regarding the acceptability or otherwise of particular blood products. They also keep details of hospitals and doctors who are experienced in ‘bloodless’ medical procedures.
In the final analysis, the decision to abstain from blood transfusion is a personal one and not, as commonly portrayed, a dictate from the world headquarters in the USA.
The depth of belief of each individual Witness is well summarized in the booklet Management of Anaesthesia for Jehovah’s Witnesses, published by the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland: ‘Administration of blood to a competent patient, against their will and in conflict with their genuinely held beliefs, has been likened by the Witnesses to rape. It will not result in expulsion from the community if it was carried out against the expressed wishes of the patient but may have as deep a psychological effect as forceful sexual interference’8
In which cases the Hospital Liason Committee of the Watchtower is dictated or ordered to act and to intervene at the patients bed? Only in cases where the hospital calls it? And how does it than guarantee that it would not DICTATE - not in the least - the womans personal decision?
Of course the World headquarter as far away as in the USA is not directly contacted via the red telephone. e.g. "Here Lösch, hello any question about what is personal choice?" how ridiculos, who could ever come up with such a ridiculos assumption?