Can the government force a JW in the States to have a blood transfusion ? This is a hot topic in Britain at the moment because there are many trying to get the law changed or at least debated on whether it should be changed to allow doctors to give a blood transfusion even if the patient requests this not to be done. This is a result of a young women dying shortly after giving birth where she refused a transfusion and the doctors states this decision caused her death.
I’m not completely certain if that is the case in every instance but I do know of a JW couple who were refusing some similar treatment for their child when the state stepped in and removed him/her from their parents’ control “for her own welfare.”