Children of Jehovah's Witnesses and adolescent Jehovah's Witnesses: what are their rights?
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Children of Jehovah's Witnesses and adolescent Jehovah's Witnesses: what are their rights?
The Jehovah's Witnesses Society (JW), a fundamentalist Christian sect, is best known to laypersons and healthcare professionals for its refusal of blood products, even when such a refusal may result in death. Since the introduction of the blood ban in 1945, JW parents have fought for their rights to refuse blood on behalf of their children, based on religious beliefs and their right to raise ch...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2004.067843