Blood Transfussion

I was saddened but not shocked to read about the news that a mother died after childbirth because she refused because she was a Jehova Witness. From Wikipedia:

The official teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses regards blood as sacred and rejects allogeneic and pre-operative autologous transfusions of whole blood, red cells, white cells, platelets or plasma.^[130] This is based on an understanding of the Biblical admonition to " abstain from ... blood," based on Acts 15:28, 29, and also on Leviticus 17:11,12, "For the life of the flesh is in the blood ... No soul of you shall eat blood," and of Genesis 9:3, 4, which they understand to be the first instance of "the Bible’s clear prohibition against taking blood into the body." ^[131] Although accepted by a majority of Jehovah's Witnesses, evidence indicates a minority does not wholly endorse this doctrine.

Next time a JW stands at my door preaching love blah blah blah - I will need to excersise restraint to tell them where to shove it. When any man puts religious adherence over their family's well being is a poor man. YES - I accept there are times when people are persectued and are killed - thats standing up for something you believe in and is possibly no different. I cannot think of the reasons why as I am ill, tired etc etc but it does seem different.

In the end a religious nonesense has robbed two little children from the most precious thing they could find on this earth. To me - and Im sorry for swearing - is simply crap.