Sentences with phrase «refused blood transfusions»

On the facts of that case, the parents, due to their sincere religious beliefs, refused blood transfusions for their infant child as a part of her medical treatment.

They are famous for their door - to - door evangelizing and for refusing blood transfusions; they believe there is scriptural justification for all their actions and beliefs.

When a person plays with dynamite or refuses a blood transfusion on religious grounds, this process continues even today.

The conflict has heated in Argentina, especially after the death last month of another Jehovah's Witness who refused a blood transfusion.

A number of areas have been addressed, including the development of a protocol for the management of women who refuse blood transfusion.

Martin said the priorities of promising Jehovah's Witness sportspeople sometimes changed as their faith deepened, and that prompted them to take a A pregnant Jehovah's Witness and her baby have died after the woman refused a blood transfusion in a Sydney hospital.

The film is an adaptation of Ian McEwan's same - named novel, about a British judge asked to intervene when a minor refuses a blood transfusion over his religious beliefs.

A lesson looking at whyJehovah's witnesses refuse blood transfusions.

Mostyn J, ruling in the Family Division that a child should receive surgical treatment for bone cancer against the wishes of his parents, has referred to Ian McEwan's «excellent» novel The Children Act (Jonathan Cape 2014), which is about a 17 year old Jehovah's Witness refusing a blood transfusion.

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Suppose a company owned by Jehovah's Witnesses refused to support a health plan for their employees that permitted blood transfusions?

Lets put it this way for you: I am a Jehovah's Witness, you want blood transfusions covered but yet due to my firmly held belief against them, I refuse to cover them.

Wait till any business affiliated with the Jehova witnesses start refusing access to blood transfusion to their employees (female and male).

Under this ruling, wouldn't he be able to refuse to pay for my health insurance if it included coverage for blood transfusions?

Once you can convince someone that you are the sole holder of the God's truth then it is easy to get them to sell all their belongings, abandon their families, participate in a jihad, a crusade, an inquisition, wipe out all the Philistine men, women and children, commit polygamy, refuse life saving blood transfusions, fly into buildings, relegate women to broodmare status, etc..

Considering what we know about placental transfusion immediately after birth, and the importance of adequate blood volume for newborns, it would be unethical to randomly allocate newborns to have premature clamping of their cords (and many mother's would refuse consent).

«Adapted from the novel by Ian McEwan, Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci star in this riveting, complex drama of a family - court judge facing a personal and professional crisis when she's asked to rule in the case of a teenager who is refusing a life - saving blood transfusion due to his family's religious beliefs.»

A 17 - year - old boy suffering from a rare form of leukemia, Adam Henry, needs a blood transfusion that could save his life, but he and his parents, all Jehovah's Witnesses, refuse consent, based on their belief that accepting blood products into the body is contrary to their faith.

For example, some people may want to refuse dialysis or blood transfusion, and those sorts of concerns can be directly articulated in a healthcare power of attorney.