Court suspended parental rights for one day to save boy's life with transfusion

Sunday 15th March, 10:41 AM JST

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jacqueshellacque at 02:17 AM JST - 16th March

A victory for Reason over the irrational.
ShawnHolland at 02:27 AM JST - 16th March

Before people get all antiJW here...

Jehovah's Witnesses do not refuse their children blood transfusions based on the Watchtower or religious beliefs. It is their personal decision that it is based on. The religion does not prohibit blood from being GIVEN to children who do not make the decisions themselves and have not accepted the religion themselves.
Johns2002 at 03:34 AM JST - 16th March

No! Jehova's witnesess forbids blood transfussion.
Johns2002 at 03:37 AM JST - 16th March

In fact, I have a friend who's a Jehova's witness has this membership ID that indicates a No blood sign. A sign we usually see in no parking sign that telling the forebeerer refuses to be transfered of blood whatever happens.
Himajin at 03:57 AM JST - 16th March

Jehovah's Witnesses do not refuse their children blood transfusions based on the Watchtower or religious beliefs.

I'm sorry,you're wrong. I've gotten the lecture on it from them at my own front door, and a pamphlet addressing it.
shiuu at 07:33 AM JST - 16th March

Now how's the kid supposed to get into Heaven?
JustTheFacts at 09:01 AM JST - 16th March

Bravo Japan. Morality over religion.
Himajin at 10:08 AM JST - 16th March

shiuu, only 144,000 people get into heaven. All others live on the Earth recreated as a paradise.

Moderator: Back on topic please.
dennis0bauer at 03:31 PM JST - 16th March

A positive court story, good going.

"But why do the parent raise the kid again? if they are true believers than the kid has become tainted and even worse may have lost his sould? Why are they still raising this Devil Child"
paolo27th at 10:00 PM JST - 16th March

So the parents are Muslim? And I aint saying Im anti-Muslim but being an Atheist Im pleased to see a country finally affirming its secular principles and not folding to the parent`s misbeliefs in the name of "human rights".
Ah_so at 11:03 PM JST - 16th March

I'm, personally, in a crux: the child's life should have been saved, yes, but to override the parents' religious beliefs does open up a can of worms I don't believe anyone wants opened.

I disagree, Blue Tiger. I do want to open that can of worms, very much. Why should parents' religious beliefs have any bearing on whether or not to save a child's life?
Blue_Tiger at 12:22 AM JST - 17th March

Ah_so, if the government starts interviening in peoples' religious lives, where does it stop? When and where is the next line drawn, and how many until there are no more privacy nor personal rights?
irishosaru at 05:38 AM JST - 17th March

Blue Tiger - religious beliefs are not laws in Japan. In my opinion, talking about religion worldwide, I'd hope that in any situation where a religious belief conflicts with any law, then the law must be followed.

I don't think that the logical conclusion to that argument is "no more privacy nor personal rights."
nausicaa at 03:49 AM JST - 18th March

As a former JW, it's mandatory. Well, it's not enforced at gunpoint. But if you choose to have a transfusion or give one to your child, you have substantial risk of: 1.) God hating you and you not living forever in a paradise earth. 2.) Being kicked out of the JW's club (which means not having normal communication with your family, or any of your friends. sometimes families just completely cut off the person and since you aren't "encouraged" to have friends outside of JWs, oooops, your entire familial, social and sometimes work strata is completely gone. who needed that anyway?)

The reason there are all these loopholes now, with regard to blood, is because JW big shots in Brooklyn, NY are slowly moving forward with the times and realizing their stand is ridiculous.

In times past, things were WAY more strict (in all things, not just blood transfusions). Hmmm, it's almost like God's standards are changing a few decades behind the rest of western civilization. Isn't that an interesting thought?
CampingKev at 04:21 PM JST - 18th March

Whether it was consented or not, once that tainted blood hits the vein in the kid they're not going to be allowed into the heaven-on-earth paradise. I liken the JW situation to having parents that forbid the family to go to Great Adventure because of the haunted house fire and you're limited to Rye Playland instead. Phooey.