Article: QLD: Doctors seek clarification on blood transfusions

Article: Jehovah's Witnesses, blood transfusions, and ...
Journal of Church and State;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... medical beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses. The ... devoutly refuse to accept blood transfusions for either themselves ... the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses ("Society ... blood means loss of Jehovah's favor and the chance ... but wall order blood transfusions to save the life or ...

Article: The inner workings of an ethics committee: latest battle over ...
The Hastings Center Report;  February 1, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... Committee: Latest Battle over Jehovah's Witnesses Is there anything ... informed the committee that Jehovah's Witnesses derive their ... century, which declared that blood transfusions are nothing more than a source ... prohibition are dire: receiving blood transfusions is a sin, resulting ...

Article: Father battles Jehovah's Witnesses over daughter's death ...
AP Worldstream;  March 1, 2006 ;     700 words ... ... crusade against Jehovah's Witnesses ... prohibition against blood transfusions, after a court ... Bible forbids blood transfusions. "This is ... lawyers are Jehovah's Witnesses ... whether to have blood transfusions. Brady dismisses ...

Article: Supreme Court rejects case of forced blood ...
AP Worldstream;  July 11, 2002 ;     372 words ... ... was forced to undergo blood transfusions even though it violated her beliefs as a Jehovah's Witness. Following ... forced to undergo 38 blood transfusions and four rounds of ... mother opposed them. Jehovah's Witnesses believe ...

Article: The Big Question: Who are the Jehovah's Witnesses, and why ...
Belfast Telegraph;  November 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... after giving birth to twins. She was a Jehovah's Witness (JW) and had refused a blood ... them. What exactly do they believe? Jehovah's Witnesses are an off-shoot of Adventist ... 1922 and they changed their name to the Jehovah's Witnesses (after Isaiah 43:10 ...

Article: Patients come to Norwalk hospital for surgery without ...
PR Newswire;  November 4, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... operated on more than 14,000 patients (mostly Jehovah's Witnesses, who refuse blood transfusions because of religious conviction) without ... institute's patients continue to come from the Jehovah's Witness community, but because of the ...

Article: Are blood transfusions wrong?(Features)
Sunday Mirror (London, England);  September 13, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... ability to use blood transfusions to cure or ... has been a Jehovah's Witness ... treatment without blood transfusions. THE use of ... the case with Jehovah's Witnesses ... another side to blood transfusions which most ...