Child Health — Watchtower deception!

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Playing word games with the health of unsuspecting children is standard-issue evilness.

Watchtower asserts the following of a decision rendered by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)[1-2]:

The freedom of believers to choose medical treatments says nothing whatsoever about whether a given choice protects the health of believers.

When it comes to health the fact of the matter is that Watchtower has taught parents it is sinful to exercise freedom of choice to accept transfusion of blood to protect the life and health of their child. This results in parents refusing to accept blood transfusion for sake of their children.[3-4]

When blood transfusion is essential to prevent premature death of a child and the child does not get that therapy the result is death.[5-6]

For Watchtower to promote an idea that freedom of choice says anything about the health value of a choice to refuse blood transfusion is fallacious, but worse it is deadly deception.

Regarding health, here is what the ECHR actually had to say about Jehovah’s Witnesses following Watchtower’s blood doctrine[7-8]:


This decision rendered by the ECHR does not reject the notion that refusing blood transfusion can damage health of individual members of the community of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Shame on Watchtower for misrepresenting what the ECHR actually said, and shame on Watchtower for misleading folks on this life and death issue!

Shame on Watchtower!

Marvin Shilmer
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References

1. The Watchtower, July 15, 2011, Simplified English Edition, p. 32.

2. Jehovah's Witnesses of Moscow and Others v. Russia, European Court of Human Rights, June 10, 2010, par. 136.

3. 1975 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, published by Watchtower, 1974, pp. 223-224.

4. Children — Blood — Everlasting Life

5. Awake!, published by Watchtower, May 22, 1994, p. 2.

6. Children Die — Watchtower Spin

7. Jehovah's Witnesses of Moscow and Others v. Russia, European Court of Human Rights, June 10, 2010, par. 138.

8. The ECHR also stated:


Contrary to the message Watchtower attempts to convey, the above statement by the ECHR does not reject the accusation that refusal of blood transfusions can damage a person’s health. The ECHR said the accusation lacked a factual basis as defined by law. According to the ECHR, no evidence was shared in this case identifying one of Jehovah’s Witnesses “whose health had been harmed or cite any forensic study assessing the extent of the harm and establishing a causal link between that harm and the activities of the applicant community.” (At par. 144)

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