Jehovah transfusion deemed lawful

bloodA hospital acted lawfully in sedating and giving blood to a woman who refused the treatment after a haemorrhage, the Irish Republic’s High Court has ruled.

The woman, a Jehovah’s Witness, did not want the transfusion for religious reasons after giving birth at Dublin’s Women’s Hospital last September.

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