Feeling a bit low today, after a week with influenza which knocked me for six, I decided to take a few days off from my business & stay at home (cautiously walking around, putting in dirty laundry in the machine, then using the tumble dryer afterwards, making some tea & having breakfast after everyone has left for their day's labour), I turned on the tv and was surprised to see the mornings news broadcast about a young mother who died in childbirth. Its not an unusual occurence, there are many women who die in childbirth for varying reasons but this one could have been prevented, but for the woman's faith in her religion, she was a Jehovah's Witness. Whilst giving birth to TWINS, she needed a blood transfusion but refused it because she said she was a Jehovah's Witness and it was against their religion to accept a transfusion. This lady died for her beliefs which is all very well but now there are two babies who will grow up without their mother & we do not know the family's background regarding the father & his capabilities to look after them if he is working full time or whether she had a sister or will they rely on grandparents to do the work of a mother. In such circumstances, you would have though some dispensation could be given but there but for a few pints of blood, two children will not know their mother & I hope they look deeply into this religion before commiting themselves when they are adults. This is not all, there were issues where deaths were also preventable where parents have refused their children a blood transfusion and the children died, some from accidents (which were also preventable but by their very nature, impossible and that is why they are called accidents), some by emergency surgery (which is permissible but NO blood transfusion can be used), these deaths of children due to the parents refusing blood transfusions brings home the faith people have in their religion, we all do things for our religion, but sacrificing oneself is one thing but sacrificing children is something else, in my humble opinion, they are not old enough to make this decision! John Monteiro 05.11.07........10.48hrs
---------------------------------------- Sanny de Quepem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: MARGAO, NOV 3 - Two members of a Christian sect, believed to be from the Jehovahâs Witness, were smeared with black oil paint at Comba here on Saturday morning after locals suspected them of indulging in conversion.......... ----------------------------------------
