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Congolese Woman Forcibly Transfused

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Friday September 22, 2006 13:17

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This information was sent privately this morning. The story is being reported elsewhere but it is worth drawing to the attention of RAR and other users of Indymedia.

A single Jehova's Witness woman from Congo has been forcibly transfused with
blood at the Coombe Women's Hospital in order that her (healthy) newborn son
will have a relative and carer within the state. I have never, ever heard of
religious objections being overturned like this - "Mr Justice Henry Abbott
directed the hospital to restrain her if she physically attempted to stop
doctors administering to her a life-saving transfusion." The compulsion to
treat pregnant women and to apply psychiatric detention orders is a huge
problem in Ireland, but this treatment of a single, black woman is an
outrage too far.

A young mother, whom the High Court ordered should be given a blood
transfusion against her will in a bid to save her life, was recovering at a
Dublin maternity hospital last night.
The Humanist Association of Ireland described the court decision as
"absolutely outrageous". Its vice-chairman Dick Spicer said the decision set
a dreadful precedent. "It overrides individual religious rights. It
overrides the right to refuse treatment and the ramifications of this could
be enormous in the future", he said.

The Ms K case is understood to be one of the first of a compos mentis adult
refusing a transfusion to come before the Irish courts.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2006/0922/115859....html

Hospital ordered to give Jehovah's Witness transfusion

The High Court tonight intervened to save the life of a seriously ill
African woman by ordering a Dublin hospital to give her a life-saving blood
transfusion.

The 23-year-old Congolese woman, who suffered a major haemorrhage today
after giving birth to a healthy baby boy, had refused the treatment on
religious grounds because she is a Jehovah's Witness.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=41667...37&x=

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Comments (61 of 61)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	Unconstitutional, racist and sexist	Stuart	Fri Sep 22, 2006 18:31
2	Stuart	pat c	Fri Sep 22, 2006 18:48
3	questions	ms	Fri Sep 22, 2006 19:13
4	This isn't about religion, it's about human rights	Paul O'Donnell	Fri Sep 22, 2006 20:16
5	Yeah ypu're right. they should have let her die to protect her rights and those of her child	hedgehog	Sat Sep 23, 2006 04:12
6	...	Gerri	Sat Sep 23, 2006 04:30
7	Unprecedented	Stuart	Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:04
8	Basic Medical Ethics	murf	Sat Sep 23, 2006 17:40
9	compus mentus	hedgehog	Sun Sep 24, 2006 00:54
10	compos mentis	hedgehog	Sun Sep 24, 2006 02:19
11	Just one question...	TH	Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:06
12	assumption	C murray	Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:22
13	Singularity	Stuart	Sun Sep 24, 2006 15:17
14	Correction	Elle	Sun Sep 24, 2006 16:50
15	Preserving human life	Stuart	Sun Sep 24, 2006 17:39
16	You're wrong actually	Elle	Sun Sep 24, 2006 17:50
17	Code of conduct	Stuart	Sun Sep 24, 2006 19:30
18	Code of conduct	Elle	Sun Sep 24, 2006 19:47
19	rights	Ernst Udet 7th	Sun Sep 24, 2006 21:54
20	"Stuff religious beliefs and rights "	Miriam	Mon Sep 25, 2006 00:33
21	Miriam, stop with the straw man arguments	hedgehog	Mon Sep 25, 2006 01:25
22	FFS	Oswald Boelke	Mon Sep 25, 2006 06:55
23	Reply to Hedgehog	murf	Mon Sep 25, 2006 14:12
24	Bizarre and ridiculous	Erudite	Mon Sep 25, 2006 15:04
25	individuals rights	gerri	Mon Sep 25, 2006 15:13
26	Ridiculous beliefs?	murf	Mon Sep 25, 2006 15:29
27	murf	hedgehog	Tue Sep 26, 2006 00:12
28	and regarding my cracked logic mr Murf...	hedgehog	Tue Sep 26, 2006 06:08
29	Dangerous thinking	murf	Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:47
30	Society of Irish Anti-Religionists (not yet incepted) or SIAR	Befuddled	Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:04
31	Can't we just agree to disagree?	Stuart	Tue Sep 26, 2006 13:35
32	Get a Grip	Anthony Blair	Tue Sep 26, 2006 13:39
33	Whose confusion?	murf	Tue Sep 26, 2006 16:17
34	stop wriggling Murf	hedgehog	Wed Sep 27, 2006 04:23
35	Hedgehog	Miriam	Wed Sep 27, 2006 09:58
36	My last word	murf	Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:54
37	murf - last word -the most sensible idea you had	hedgehog	Thu Sep 28, 2006 04:06
38	Moral compasses	Stuart	Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:16
39	for the record	hedgehog	Thu Sep 28, 2006 13:12
40	All you do	Hedghog	Thu Sep 28, 2006 13:31
41	Two hedgehogs	Help!	Thu Sep 28, 2006 18:04
42	what does Bosco look like naked?	sock puppet	Thu Sep 28, 2006 18:07
43	Where do you draw the line?	paul f	Thu Sep 28, 2006 19:10
44	a request	pro choice	Fri Sep 29, 2006 03:35
45	A request	Stuart	Fri Sep 29, 2006 07:17
46	blood and jehovahs plan	J Witness	Fri Sep 29, 2006 09:25
47	she should be ok for resurrection	me	Fri Sep 29, 2006 09:37
48	eh....	Fr. Jack	Fri Sep 29, 2006 09:42
49	Two hedgehogs	Miriam	Fri Sep 29, 2006 09:50
50	Shame on this Kangaroo High Court of inJustice	Rodger	Fri Sep 29, 2006 16:33
51	miriam	hedgehog	Sat Sep 30, 2006 06:32
52	Since we are all confessing....	hedgehog	Sat Sep 30, 2006 07:46
53	aside - logic and god	epicurus	Sun Oct 01, 2006 07:52
54	reply to paul f	hedgehog	Mon Oct 02, 2006 04:28
55	Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery - Donation, Bloodless Surgery, Transfusion	Dr. Who	Wed Oct 04, 2006 13:09
56	Don't you mean "Mongo"?	hedgehog	Wed Oct 04, 2006 20:27
57	Freedom from dictators!	Smurfy	Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:58
58	Court action on Monday	Stuart	Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:08
59	Contact the Coombe	M Cotton	Tue Oct 10, 2006 13:19
60	Surely an investigation is necessary	Chris Murray	Tue Oct 10, 2006 13:53
61	Options and Choices	Wisdom	Sun Oct 15, 2006 07:30

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