Can jehovas witness kids have blood transfusions?

just curious.

like is it perfectly legal to let a kid die after a car crash because blood transfusions are 'wrong'?

At times.

There have been instances where courts have ordered parents to allow the child to have a blood transfusion if the child would have died otherwise. As well, parents of that group have been forced to accept treatments that work to save a child's life.

Parents cannot refuse treatment if any doctor knows of the child's desperate condition. (taken to the hospital after an auto crash, for example.)

Parents cannot make sure the kid dies, whether or not they believe god wants the kid in heaven.

Be happy your parents weren't Jw's

no i am one a teen and in the bible it talks about abstaining from blood in acts in another scripture it says not to eat or consume it. and if you think about it if your doctor says to stay away from eating sugar due to health would you have sugar water injected in your blood its a good point also there are many alternatives other than getting trans. that are more better have way less risks and are proven o be overall better for you so there should not be conflicts with it now resulting in death.

God鈥檚 law on blood certainly is not new or unclear. Through our common forefather Noah, Jehovah commanded all mankind: 鈥淔lesh with its soul鈥攊ts blood鈥攜ou must not eat.鈥?(Genesis 9:4) The sacredness of blood, representing life from God, was stressed in the Mosaic Law. Blood could be used on the altar, but otherwise it was to be 鈥榩oured out on the ground as water.鈥?(Leviticus 17:11-14; Deuteronomy 12:23-25) Did the prohibition against sustaining life with blood continue after the Mosaic Law ended? Absolutely. At what some might call the first Christian council, the apostles and older men (who comprised the governing body) concluded that Christians must 鈥榓bstain from idolatry, from fornication, from what is strangled [having blood left in] and from blood.鈥?Misuse of blood was as serious a moral wrong as illicit sex relations.鈥擜cts 15:20, 21, 28,聽29.

The early Christians obeyed God鈥檚 law about blood. Though some people back then drank the blood of gladiators as a 鈥渃ure鈥?for epilepsy, true Christians would not. Nor would they eat food containing blood, even when their refusal meant death for them and their children. Since that time, various theologians and others have acknowledged that Christians are under God鈥檚 law against sustaining life by taking in blood.

It depends on what country you are in... I know people will deny it, but there are NUMEROUS news articles and government documents confirming this...

In order to become a "legal religion" in Bulgaria, the JW governing body was compelled to agree to allow any of its members in that country to freely accept blood transfusions with no threat of reprisals from the organization.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=JW+Bulg... finds several thousand results, so it should be pretty easy for someone to learn more about this if they wish.

As part of the faith, no.

There has been a couple cases of a child dying for refusing to accept transfusions even though one of the parents tried to force them to go through with it, while the other contested it.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/nation...

And a child who refused, and died, despite his parents wishes:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/he...

They can't have blood transfusions. In fact, I have a friend who's a JW has this membership ID that indicates a No blood sign. A sign we usually see in no parking sign that telling the fore bearer refuses to be transferred of blood whatever happens.

http://religiouschildabuse.blogspot.com/...

Nope, not unless the kid requests it, in which case the hospital is allowed to override the parents.

no. my friend was raised in that religion, and that was one of the things she was glad to leave behind.