Jehovah's Witness teen doing well without transfusion Girl at centre of court battle in N.Y. hospital Isabel Vincent National Post May 25, 2005 A Jehovah's Witness teenager from British Columbia will be released today from an elite New York children's hospital after undergoing medical treatment without blood transfusions. "She hasn't required any blood transfusions and her hemoglobin is stable," said Michael Lacorte, director of the blood avoidance program at Schneider Children's Hospital. "The most difficult part of the therapy has been concluded. For the next two months she will be treated as an outpatient." The 14-year-old has been at the centre of a Canada-wide legal battle over whether she can seek bloodless treatment for her bone cancer in the United States. Blood transfusions are contrary to her family's religious beliefs. Her physicians at the B.C. Children's Hospital in Vancouver had said last month she would likely need a transfusion following chemotherapy, which can inhibit the growth of blood cells. The girl travelled with her parents to Toronto to seek a second opinion at the Hospital for Sick Children -- in contravention of a B.C. court order that she undergo treatment in her home province. An Ontario Superior Court judge this month upheld the B.C. ruling, and ordered the girl to be flown back for treatment, even though her family had made arrangements to have her treated at the Schneider hospital. The girl, who cannot be identified because of a court-imposed publication ban, was prohibited from travelling to the United States with her family. She was led sobbing from a downtown Toronto courtroom, and transported by air ambulance to Vancouver a few hours after the hearing. But last week, the family, their lawyers and the B.C. ministry of Children and Family Development agreed to a compromise, and allowed the teenager, who will be 15 next month, to be treated at the New York hospital, which specializes in bloodless medical treatments for children. "We came to an agreement that was filed before the court that none of the parties would be commenting on this matter," said Jeremy Berland, the assistant deputy minister of Children and Family Development in an interview from Victoria yesterday. "We wish her the best, and we want to respect her right to privacy." Although physicians at Schneider Children's Hospital have said they cannot offer an ironclad guarantee that they can treat her without resorting to transfusions, they have had a great deal of experience treating children without using blood products, Dr. Lacorte said, adding that hospital staff and administrators believe that avoiding blood transfusions in children is good medicine. The girl was diagnosed in December with osteogenic sarcoma, a bone cancer, in her right leg. She later underwent surgery in Vancouver to remove a cancerous tumour from her leg, and was told by her physician at the B.C. Children's Hospital that he would likely need to administer transfusions with the chemotherapy treatments. Shane Brady, the lawyer for the child's family, said they were "delighted" with last week's agreement with the B.C. ministry, although he would not comment further on the negotiations that led to the resolution. "The family has been through a really gruelling experience," said Dr. Lacorte. "They would really like some anonymity right now. We have had a lot of interest from local media, but we're not responding." According to Dr. Lacorte, the girl, who was first seen by doctors at Schneider last Wednesday, has already undergone the most difficult phase of her treatment, which has included surgery and chemotherapy. Dr. Lacorte would did not elaborate on any specific treatments she received, but said she will remain in the New York area until mid-July and be treated at the hospital as an outpatient. In March, Canadian doctors removed a cancerous tumour from her right leg. The family is living with a local Jehovah's Witness family, Dr. Lacorte said. "All I can tell you is she is in good spirits and has a really great sense of humour," said Dr. Lacorte. "She's a doll."
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Canadian Teenager update
by InquiryMan injehovah's witness teen doing well without transfusion
girl at centre of court battle in n.y. hospital
isabel vincent
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Do JWs Actually Have Less of a Divorce Rate Than Other Religions???
by minimus ini think so.
very few couples got divorced, even after they were caught with another person.i know that most that got df'd for straying still didn't get divorced----they tried to work it out.
have you seen this too?
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According to a cencus taken among German JWs (I recall more than 140,000 responded to the JW-sponsored gallup), some 4 per cent were divorced. In a circuit assembly, the CO very candidly stated that before he could proudly state while preaching that JWs had less divorces than the general population. He said, that regrettably that is no longer the case.
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City Confidential - Profiled Jehovahs Witness murdered in Boise, Idaho
by pratt1 ini was wondering if any one else saw the city confidential eposide on saturday may 7th, that profiled a dub from boise, idaho that was killed by a russian dancer - her husband.. i didn't see the show from the beginning, but apparently the russian dancer was convicted of murdering the dub, however he still claims his innocence - his theroy is that the jehovah witnesses killed his wife because she married him.
a voilation of their laws.
he appeared to have some supporters who also believed in his innocence.. .
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I remember it. It got quite a lot of press coverage in Scandinavia. It was pretty naive to try to preach to "outcasts", who in dress/groom was a wandering warning of trouble.
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Rutherford, "I made an ass of myself"
by Fatfreek in.resurrected in 1925 to rule as princes over the earth.
(millions now living will never die, 1920, pp.
89-90) they failed to show up, of course, and rutherford quit predicting dates.
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Did he refer to himself as a donkey or did he imply his butt?
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Cultural Aspects of Spanking--Countries Other than US
by blondie inculturally, i wonder how spanking plays out.. canada.
mexico.
uk.
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could not resist using the funny word "flabbergasted". See definition: To be surprised or astonished. The British comedian Frankie Howerd used to say in mock astonishment: ?I?m flabbergasted?never has my flabber been so gasted!?. That?s about as good an explanation for the origin of this word as you?re likely to get. It turns up first in print in 1772, in an article on new words in the Annual Register. The writer couples two fashionable terms: ?Now we are flabbergasted and bored from morning to night?. (Bored?being wearied by something tedious?had appeared only a few years earlier.) Presumably some unsung genius had put together flabber and aghast to make one word. The source of the first part is obscure. It might be linked to flabby, suggesting that somebody is so astonished that they shake like a jelly. It can?t be connected with flapper, in the sense of a person who fusses or panics, as some have suggested, as that sense only emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. But flabbergasted could have been an existing dialect word, as one early nineteenth-century writer claimed to have found it in Suffolk dialect and another?in the form flabrigast? in Perthshire. Further than this, nobody can go with any certainty.
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Cultural Aspects of Spanking--Countries Other than US
by blondie inculturally, i wonder how spanking plays out.. canada.
mexico.
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In fact, a brother said in a public talk that spanking was against the Bible. That the rod was merely symbolising parental authority and that spanking was against that spirit.... When relating this to some American brothers I met while vacationing, they were almost stumbled.. They did not figure out children could be disciplined without this method. They were also flabbergasted when they heard that the Society had "compromised" by allowing all references to corporal punishment to be removed in the translated literature.
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Cultural Aspects of Spanking--Countries Other than US
by blondie inculturally, i wonder how spanking plays out.. canada.
mexico.
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Scandinavia: outlawed. Very politically incorrect. Rare among JW as well as in society in general as far as I know it. At least, it is not commonly accepted or endorsed.
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National Average = Quotas
by zack inthe national average for publishers reporting feild service time in the untited states is just under 10 hours a month.
this has become the de facto standard for every member of the congregation.
if one fails to produce at the rate of others, he is "weak", his service is "divided", he puts the things of "this life" in "first place.".
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In a Scandinavian country, the average hours in the holiday season (when the JWs have more free time than ever) is some 6,5 the lowest during the whole year.
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New Abuse Case in Denmark
by InquiryMan indenmark: jehovahs witness forced six-year old to oral sex a 55 year old danish man has been imprisoned, charged for abusing a six year old boy.
the abuse took place in the kingdom hall of jehovahs witnesses in copenhagen.
{there are several kh in copenhagen, my remark} the 55-year old has on several times since new year made the six year old boy satysfy himself sexually, reports the ekstrabladet newspaper.
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DENMARK: Jehovahs witness forced six-year old to oral sex A 55 year old Danish man has been imprisoned, charged for abusing a six year old boy. The abuse took place in the Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs witnesses in Copenhagen. {There are several KH in Copenhagen, my remark} The 55-year old has on several times since new year made the six year old boy satysfy himself sexually, reports the Ekstrabladet newspaper. The abuse took place in a congregation hall situated in a remote road in the southern part of Copenhagen. On Friday last week, the 55 year old man was imprisoned, intially for twelve days. The imprisonment hearing was secret, and it is not known if the 55 year old accepted imprisonment. Copenhagen police has confirmed the imprisonment, but refrains from further comments on the case. The imprisoned man is officially charged for having sexual relations with a minor child. The abuse shall have taken place on several occasions, starting from New Year until now. It was the parents of the boy who went to the police with the allegations. The parents are also members of the congregation.
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New Abuse Case in Denmark
by InquiryMan indenmark: jehovahs witness forced six-year old to oral sex a 55 year old danish man has been imprisoned, charged for abusing a six year old boy.
the abuse took place in the kingdom hall of jehovahs witnesses in copenhagen.
{there are several kh in copenhagen, my remark} the 55-year old has on several times since new year made the six year old boy satysfy himself sexually, reports the ekstrabladet newspaper.
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DENMARK: Jehovahs witness forced six-year old to oral sex A 55 year old Danish man has been imprisoned, charged for abusing a six year old boy. The abuse took place in the Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs witnesses in Copenhagen. {There are several KH in Copenhagen, my remark} The 55-year old has on several times since new year made the six year old boy satysfy himself sexually, reports the Ekstrabladet newspaper. The abuse took place in a congregation hall situated in a remote road in the southern part of Copenhagen. On Friday last week, the 55 year old man was imprisoned, intially for twelve days. The imprisonment hearing was secret, and it is not known if the 55 year old accepted imprisonment. Copenhagen police has confirmed the imprisonment, but refrains from further comments on the case. The imprisoned man is officially charged for having sexual relations with a minor child. The abuse shall have taken place on several occasions, starting from New Year until now. It was the parents of the boy who went to the police with the allegations. The parents are also members of the congregation.