A Canadian girl [Bethany Hughes] is undergoing alternative chemotherapy treatment at an undisclosed location in North America. She made headlines earlier this year when she refused to receive blood transfusions. Her battle has torn her family apart. Her parents are now embroiled in divorce proceedings, split over Mia’s refusal to undergo blood transfusions. Read more…
The father of a teenaged leukemia patient [Bethany Hughes] who fought against blood transfusions for religious reasons is upset that his wife has taken their daughter out of the country to a secret location where she’ll begin alternative treatments. Read more…
A circuit judge ordered Florida Hospital doctors to give a premature baby girl a blood transfusion if needed to save her life. The Jehovah”s Witness mother was 25 to 26 weeks pregnant when she gave birth, and the baby weighs less than one pound. Read more…
The Alberta Court of Appeal ruled that a young Jehovah’s Witness from Calgary will have to continue getting blood transfusions. The 16-year-old girl [Bethany Hughes] , who suffers from leukemia, is not mature enough to make a decision that’s crucial to her treatment, the high court said in upholding earlier rulings by lower courts. Read more…
A father is shunned by the Jehovah’s Witnesses he once embraced since defying his faith by agreeing to blood transfusions for his 16-year-old leukemia-stricken daughter [Bethany Hughes]. Read more…
Whether the WTS has been “consistent” in their stand on vaccinations the reader may judge from this article… Read more…
The WTS stood at the threshold of permitting autologous whole blood transfusions and for some reason, presently unknown, suddenly shifted and stepped back. They already printed new blood cards and sent them to the congregations. But the distribution of the of the new cards have been cancelled and the elders were instructed to destroy these new cards. Read more…
Osamu Muramoto, Kaiser Permanente Northwest Division Portland, Oregon, USA Journal of Medical Ethics 2000;26:381-386 Read more…
Lee Elder, The Associated Jehovah’s Witnesses for Reform on Blood Journal of Medical Ethics 2000;26:37 5-380 Read more…
Raanan Gillon, Imperial College School of Medicine, London University Journal of Medical Ethics 2000;26:299-301. Read more…
