Jehovah’s Witness sues Kansas for bloodless transplant
The cognitive dissonance displayed by fundamentalists is sometimes stunning to behold. This case is bogus because no matter what they call the procedure, there isn’t a way to get a completely “bloodless” liver transplant. Jehovah’s Witnesses are either lying to themselves or willfully ignorant, because no matter how you flush a donor liver pre-transplant a few blood cells from the donor will stay so the transfusion is just a matter of more quantity. Is there a magic number of cells that trips the wire on “receiving blood from others”?
As much as Mary Stinemetz wants to live, she’s ready to die for her faith.
Suffering from the late stages of liver disease, Stinemetz, 64, needs a transplant. But the operation could cost more than $250,000, an insurmountable expense for her family.
Whether she gets a transplant could depend on how far she’s willing to battle for her beliefs in a courtroom drama that will unfold in the Kansas Court of Appeals today.
Living in the small western Kansas town of Hill City, Stinemetz could get a liver transplant, one that would be paid for by Medicaid, at the University of Kansas Hospital.
But she also would have to compromise her Jehovah’s Witness principles, because she would receive a blood transfusion, something she believes violates God’s law.