Focusing on the imminent threat to the woman’s life, Judge Wright ordered the transfusions. Skelly Wright met with the couple, who reiterated their opposition, while the physicians affirmed the matter’s urgency. She and her husband, who had a young child, refused the transfusion, so the hospital turned to the federal court for an immediate order permitting it to act to save Jones’s life. Jones, a 25 year-old Jehovah’s Witness, needed an urgent blood transfusion to prevent her death from a ruptured ulcer. In 1962 a New York state judge ruled that 69-year-old Jacob Dilgard could refuse a blood transfusion on religious grounds. Jehovah's Witnesses oppose blood transfusions
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The First Amendment guarantees the free exercise of religion, but debate continues over whether it prevails when medical practitioners determine that conventional medical therapies are necessary but individuals or their families are opposed for reasons of conscience. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, used with permission from the Associated Press) This "bloodless" approach, done largely to accommodate religious believes of the family, who are Jehovah's Witnesses, could eventually become a routine protocol in pediatric liver transplant surgeries at the hospital. In what is believed to be the first "bloodless" liver transplant, doctors at the hospital have transplanted part of the liver of Vicky Rush into her seven-month old grandson, without using blood transfusions. 21, 2001 during a news conference at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles. Nicolas Jabbour, right, holds a liver model as he shows Vicky Rush, left, what part of her liver was transplanted into her grandson Aiden Michael Rush, not seen, Wednesday, Feb.
Jehovah’s Witnesses’ refusal to accept blood transfusions is one example of this conflict.
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