A Jehovah's Witness follower who was diagnosed with treatable leukemia
when she was seven months pregnant refused to have a transfusion due
to her religious beliefs.
According to iol news, a local media reported that 28-year-old
Australian mother's baby needed to be treated which involved urgent
blood transfusions which are forbidden in Jehovah's Witness church.
Her treating doctor, hematologists Giselle Kidson-Gerber and colleague
Amber Biscoe believed she and her unborn baby would would have
survived if she had accepted transfusion. The baby needed urgent
caesarean birth but the doctors feared the mother would die from blood
loss if they carried one out.
The baby died in her womb, and shortly after the woman suffered a
stroke and multiple organ failure and died as well.
when she was seven months pregnant refused to have a transfusion due
to her religious beliefs.
According to iol news, a local media reported that 28-year-old
Australian mother's baby needed to be treated which involved urgent
blood transfusions which are forbidden in Jehovah's Witness church.
Her treating doctor, hematologists Giselle Kidson-Gerber and colleague
Amber Biscoe believed she and her unborn baby would would have
survived if she had accepted transfusion. The baby needed urgent
caesarean birth but the doctors feared the mother would die from blood
loss if they carried one out.
The baby died in her womb, and shortly after the woman suffered a
stroke and multiple organ failure and died as well.
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