PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - S Woolley
TI  - Children of Jehovah’s Witnesses and adolescent Jehovah’s Witnesses: what are their rights?
AID  - 10.1136/adc.2004.067843
DP  - 2005 Jul 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood
PG  - 715--719
VI  - 90
IP  - 7
4099  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/90/7/715.short
4100  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/90/7/715.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child2005 Jul 01; 90
AB  - The Jehovah’s Witnesses Society (JW), a fundamentalist Christian sect, is best known to laypersons and healthcare professionals for its refusal of blood products, even when such a refusal may result in death. Since the introduction of the blood ban in 1945, JW parents have fought for their rights to refuse blood on behalf of their children, based on religious beliefs and their right to raise children as they see fit. Adolescent JWs have also sought to refuse blood products based on their beliefs, regardless of the views of their parents.