
A hospital caring for a baby needing blood because anemia was costing its life, turned to the courts to gain permission to give the child blood as its mother refused to allow the transfer. Why? She's a Jehovah's Witness and blood transfusion "is against the religion".
Read about it here. This a topical issue in the JW circles, jus as homosexuality is in ours. Check out
these statements on the Watchtower's word on blood transfusion.