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Baby’s Parents Oppose Operation (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 20. The staff of the maternity hospital at Cambridge were fighting today to save the life of a newborn baby of a Jehovah's Witness after a Court had given permission for a blood transfusion. The father had refused on the grounds of religious belief to allow the blood to be given to the child, who was born a “blue baby.”
The Jehovah’s Witnesses base their objections to blood transfusions on passages in Genesis and Leviticus. Yesterday the Cambridge Juvenile Court, in a case believed to be the first of its kind in Britain, gave the city’s child welfare officers an order allowing to have the operation performed. Today’s hospital bulletin on the child was: “It is early yet. but everything seems all right.” In July. Mrs Eliza Humphries, a Yorkshire mother of fivi, died rather than have a transfusion which offended her husband's religious beliefs.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29342, 22 October 1960, Page 16
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