She’s a child grown and conditioned entirely in the restrictive cult, knowing only what the Elders and her conditioned family taught her - the beliefs are hardly her own, let alone her medical choices. Poor kid is just one of thousands of victims of the Witnesses’ doctrines.
Comment on Teenage Jehovah's Witness can receive blood transfusion, judge rules
gustofwind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So they’re ok with getting operated on but cannot receive blood transfusions?
Reminds me of the woman who wanted an organ transplant but not the Covid vaccine (she was ok with every other required vaccine for the transplant because propaganda)
thenoirwolfess@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
They don’t take issue with medicine or surgery, just blood that originates from another. This stance is based on their interpretation of scripture. They’ve also really began to pick and choose, as science has advanced. Typical Christian nonsense.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Let them die if that’s what they want.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Let’s not punish children for having morons as parents
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We do, but parental control over minors’ medical procedures becomes a huge issue here. If a 16 year old wants a lifesaving transfusion some places allow their parents to refuse it for them on religious grounds. The same applies to younger children as well.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Meh I was just being needlessly angry and annoyed. I don’t think we should let people die like that. Especially kids. Life saving treatment should never be up to the parents to decide, except in some very specific cases. Once they turn 18 they can make their own decisions, but fuck everything about putting your personal beliefs over your children’s lives and health.
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de [bot] 2 weeks ago
from what I’ve heard from “genetically modified skeptic” (someone who grew up in an isolated fundamentalist christian community with homeschooling and now has changed and makes youtube videos about his experiences) the indoctrination is so serious and deep that many can’t escape it even as an adult, even with mountains of evidence, even when it would be to their benefit to drop old beliefs, and so i believe it’s not really their fault if they turn out to be hateful and dangerous people. even if they were at fault, i still don’t necessarily want people to die for misguided beliefs. I’m still debating whether that kind of compassion should also work for people like trump, vance, kirk, thiel, musk, etc. but imo it should work for regular religious fanatics.
uid0gid0@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You know it’s possible to donate blood to yourself before a procedure. I’ve seen this Jehovah witness no transfusions thing several times but no one ever brings up using your own blood.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
People do that. But that won’t help when you get in an accident and didn’t have time to donate beforehand
uid0gid0@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sure but this seems to be a planned procedure rather than emergent. Also you get into areas of implied consent during emergencies.