(June 9, 2015 at 12:08 am)nicanica123 Wrote: Yes it is true that a JW would let their child die after all other means have been explored. This is more and more not the case as bloodless surgery wings have sprung up all over the world. Bloodless surgery is actually viewed as the golden standard these days.This is true, but there is a practical reason behind it. Blood is usually in short supply and any methods that can lessen (or even eliminate) the need for blood transfusions is beneficial. JWs have helped in a slightly morbid way, by providing test subjects in the more extreme cases (though usually not children, but adults making a conscious decision). In many cases, children may still be forcibly transfused if the risk is considered to be high enough. And the Watchtower Society has, over the years, made so many concessions in terms of which parts of the blood can be transfused, that it might not be a shock to hear that they overturn the policy completely in the future.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould