Regarding the June 21 article "Jehovah's Witness shuns blood, dies": The medical establishment has a duty to protect life. When a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses sect gave birth in May by Caesarean section and then refused a blood transfusion to save her life, the Osaka hospital's decision to allow this was wrong because they did not consider the welfare of the newborn.
Should the newborn have been deprived of a mother because the mother wanted to keep her personal belief system intact? People who refuse medical treatment due to religious reasons menace the well-being of humanity in general by setting the wrong precedents.
akihiko nishi
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