The Seattle Times (Associated Press), “Judge: 14-year-old Jehovah's Witness can refuse blood transfusion”
“The judge said the eighth-grader knows “he's basically giving himself a death sentence.””
Diagnosed 6 Nov 2007; chemotherapy stopped because his blood count was too low; refused on religious grounds.
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