We Have the Right to Choose - LOVING CARE FOR THE CHILDREN

Court cases regarding blood mainly involve children.  On occasion, when loving  parents have respectively asked that non-blood management be used, some medical personnel  have sought court backing to give blood.  Of course, Christians agree with laws or court actions to prevent child abuse or neglect.  Perhaps you have read cases in which some parent brutalized a child or denied it all medical care.   How tragic!  Clearly, the State can and should step in to protect a neglected child.  Still, it is easy to see how very different it is when a caring parent requests high-quality non-blood medical therapy.

These court cases usually focus  on a child in a hospital.  How did the youngster get there, and why?  Almost always the concerned parents brought their child to get quality care.  Even as Jesus was interested in children, Christian parents care for their children. The Bible speaks  of 'a nursing mother cherishing her own children.' Jehovah's Witnesses have such deep love for their children. - 1 Thessalonians 2:7; Matthew 7:11; 19:13-15.

Naturally, all parents make decisions effecting their children's safety and life: Will the family use gas or oil to heat the home?  Will  they take a child on a long-distance drive?  May he go swimming?  Such matters involve risks, even the life-and-death ones.  But society recognizes parental discretion, so parents are granted the major voice in nearly all decisions affecting their children. 

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