Jehovah’s Witness Emma Gough: Three Day Inquest to start
April 7, 2008 By Kerry
Filed under News
As we know last October Jehovah’s Witness Emma Gough who was just 22 tragically died after giving birth to her twins after she refused a blood transfusion. A 3 day inquest is due to start into the death of Emma.
It’s said that Anthony and Emma’s parents Glenda and Jim Delaney and also Witnesses who were present at the birth, are expected to give evidence in the inquest.
The family have said that hospital blunders killed Emma because maternity ward staff could not operate a dialysis machine that could have recycled Emma’s own blood and saved her life.
It’s also reported that Emma’s family are hoping the inquest verdict will make way for a massive compensation claim against the hospital trust.
Who do you think is to blame in this?
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The Watchtower religion invented the no blood transfusion dogma in 1945,thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses men,women,children have since perished in obedience.
Just about everybody in the non-JW general population knows or has read/heard of a JW who has died from refusing blood.
There are about two news articles a week lately.The Watchtower leadership ADMITS (boast) of Children who have ‘kept their integrity to Jehovah’ and died.
25% of transfusions are unwarranted meaning that 75% are potential life saving. None of the arguments about tainted blood,AIDS,diseases histoincompatibility etc, can apply to banking saving your OWN blood for elective surgery.
If you take autologous (use your own stored blood) you will be disfellowshipped shunned by your family and friends. The Watchtower forbids storing/transfusing your own blood too.What’s their criteria? They say the blood can be returned to the body only if it stays in a closed circuit loop.If it breaks free of the body it becomes sacred and then must be ‘returned to God’.
What kind of ‘closed loop’ “fruit loop logic” is that? WHERE in the Bible are these instructions? WHERE? It’s DEADLY… men,women,babies are DYING over this.
So the parents and widow of Emma Gough are seeking to blame the hospital for her death, and hoping that the verdict of the inquest into her death will help them to do so.
I sincerely hope that this does not happen, and that the conclusions reached will reflect more on the no blood policy of Jehovah’s Witnesses, based as it is on their misinterpretation of the scripture at Acts 15:29, which so obviously refers to dietary requirements for First-Century Christians rather than a prohibition on accepting a blood transfusion, than any errors the hospital staff, hamstrung as they were in having to accept Emma’s stance on blood, may have made.
The Watchtower’s blood policy has already cost many Witnesses their lives, Emma Gough is by no means the first, and sadly she probably won’t be the last as long as the Watchtower continues to actively discourage their followers, at the threat of excommunication from the faith, from accepting treatment that may save their lives.
I have been helping people out of the Watchtower for 27 years. I left in 1980 after the headquarters covered up a lot of dishonesty rewgarding their past prophecies and teachings that are always flip-flopping. Gene Smalley at Bethel is responsible for the modern blood transfusion doctrine and its changes that threaten people’s lives. Shame on you Gene! Bloodguilt.
For over 35 years, I willingly took the stand that young Emma did, including two C-sections and emergency abdominal surgery for my four-month-old firstborn. Now, with the perspective of seeing the Watchtower Society as the inhumane corporate entity that it is, I can only heave a sigh of relief as I cringe at the thought of the needless risk I put myself and my children through. We were lucky.
Would my late husband still be alive if he had chosen cancer treatments that included blood transfusion? I don’t know. I do know that the doctors, nurses and technicians who took care of him were always the kindest, most considerate and accommodating professionals imaginable. I would never question their competence as they dealt with the restrictions that our religion put on them.
A typical Jehovah’s witness has no idea how complex their blood/no-blood requirements really are. When you come right down to it, it doesn’t exist! But they put it so complicatedly that they’d never know it’s not what they think it is!
This is the website that made it clear to me (and made it clear to me that I just had to quit Jehovah’s witnesses):
ajwrb.org
Just where is Danny Haszard and his band at this latest Apostate feast?
SUMMARIES OF OVER 1000 JEHOVAH’S WITNESS BLOOD TRANSFUSION LAWSUITS & OTHER COURT CASES
The following website summarizes over 525 U.S. court cases and lawsuits affecting children of Jehovah’s Witness Parents, including 375 cases where the JW Parents refused to consent to life-saving blood transfusions for their dying children:
DIVORCE, BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS, AND OTHER LEGAL ISSUES AFFECTING CHILDREN OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
http://jwdivorces.bravehost.com
The following website summarizes over 500 JW-related lawsuits, including dozens wherein injured JW Employees refused to accept blood tansfusions, plus dozens of other cases relating to health/medical care and disability issues, etc.
EMPLOYMENT ISSUES UNIQUE TO JEHOVAH’S WITNESS EMPLOYEES
http://jwemployees.bravehost.com
Jehovah’s Witnesses refusing blood transfusions reminds me of The People’s Temple drinking kool-aid.
1 Samuel 14:32-35 shows God forgave Saul’s men for eating meat with blood to stay alive. Mr. Holtender, that’s not “apostate” anything, it’s the Bible.
I have personally known witnesses who died by refusing blood transfusions. They do not do this out of a deep personal conviction about God’s view on this. They do it out of devotion to “the organization”. The moment the ban is lifted on blood transfusions, JW’s will line up for them just like the organ transplants. Sad.
The Watchtower Society is an evil cult that breaks up families through their use of fear of God, death (through forbidding transfusions) , emotional blackmail and coercion.