BABY DIES AFTER OPERATION
Transfusion Denied On Religious Grounds (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 6. A father who refused on religious grounds to allow his six-days-old daughter to be given a blood transfusion was criticised by the Coroner at an inquest into the death of the child. He was Edward Stewart Lowley, of Birkenshaw, near Bradford. He told the Leeds Coroner that he saw his child four hours after birth. He agreed to an operation, but said the child should not have a blood transfusion under any circumstances. He said: ■ “I am one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The Scriptures are the basis of our belief, and the Scriptures state that the taking of blood is wrong, according to Goti’s law.”
The coroner: The child was receiving blood, not taking it. Don’t you have it on your conscience that the child may have been alive now if it had been given a transfusion? Lowley: I cannot dd anything which is against the law of God. My conscience is quite clear.
The Coroner recorded a veridct of misadventure. He said that in his opinion the father would have been wiser to have accepted medical advice.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27191, 7 November 1953, Page 7
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