Judge Tells Hospital To Give Child Blood Transfusion Even Though Mother Didn`t Want It
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A judge has granted doctors at Arkansas
Children`s Hospital permission to give a youngster a blood
transfusion after the child`s mother refused consent.
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Willard Proctor signed an emergency
order allowing the procedure after he concluded it was necessary to
save the child`s life.
Stephanie Thomas told Proctor that she opposed a blood
transfusion for her daughter, Jada, on religious grounds because
she is a Jehovah`s Witness.
An affidavit said Jada needed heart surgery, which might require
a blood transfusion.
