When JWs sued for the right to require parental notification and approval for medical treatments, specific in the case of blood transfusions, the final decision affected all medical treatment of children. So, did they go too far?
If they had lost the case, than today's parents, who mostly lack a formal medical education, would not be burden with the daunting decisions regarding the medical treatments that their children receive.
One of the arguments made against JWs is that the doctors know better what is best as regards their children. Certainly, all doctors are far better informed on what is best for children and should not be required to burden parents with this.
If it wasn't for JWs, parents would not be stuck with having to make these decisions. Considering the views of the general public on blood transfusions in children, perhaps its time to overturn this decision so that parents are not so heavily burden by something they cannot be well informed enough to make.
2007-01-13
21:44:51
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