From Why Evolution is True, this infuriating story:<\/p>\n
Australian Jehovah\u2019s Witness (and her fetus) die after mother refuses blood transfusion \u00ab Why Evolution Is True<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now here\u2019s a conundrum: at what stage of life does a fetus acquire the \u201cright\u201d to be free from having its health controlled by the religious beliefs of its parents?\u00a0According to yesterday\u2019s Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, a 28-year-old woman in Australia was discovered to have leukemia when she was seven months pregnant. She was also a Jehovah\u2019s Witness, which means that it was against her religion to get blood transfusions. Because there were complications of the pregnancy (probably related to the leukemia), the doctors needed to do a Caesarian section, but couldn\u2019t because the mother would bleed to death since she\u00a0wouldn\u2019t accept blood. <\/strong><\/em>[My emphasis] The baby died, and the mother died shortly thereafter from a stroke\u2014a common cause of death in untreated leukemia, as with the Canadian First Nations girl Makayla Sault.\u00a0In all likelihood the doctors could have saved the baby, but it would have involved killing the mother, although the mother would have died anyway from the disease.<\/em><\/p>\n This should convert all women into enemies of any<\/em> religion that would insist that they and their children die rather than accept 21st century medical care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Why Evolution is True, this infuriating story: Australian Jehovah\u2019s Witness (and her fetus) die after mother refuses blood transfusion \u00ab Why Evolution Is True. Now here\u2019s a conundrum: at what stage of life does a fetus acquire the \u201cright\u201d … Continue reading
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