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by go_to_hellas on February 1st, 2007

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Should Jehovah's Witnesses have the right to refuse blood tranfusions for their children, and does the state have an obligation to step in?

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  • by tjatherton on March 2nd, 2007

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    If they are in the hospital then they are under the doctors care, and the doctor is sworn under oath to keep people alive, no matter what... so yes, if they need it and the parents refuse.. then the child should be kept alive with whatever means available to them, such as a transfusion.

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