O DIREITO COLETIVO DE RECUSA DE CRIANÇAS E ADOLESCENTES TESTEMUNHAS DE JEOVÁ À TRANSFUSÃO DE SANGUE

Abstract

Jehovah's Witnesses avoid, for religious rather than medical reasons, blood transfusion treatments, considering that both the Old and New Testaments, in their interpretations, order the abstention of blood. They maintain that, to God, blood represents life, as interpreted in the book of Leviticus 17:14. This article seeks, through the deductive method, to address the right to freedom and the refusal of certain religious treatment. Concluding that the refusal of blood transfusion is legitimate and that preventive, diagnostic or therapeutic medical interventions must necessarily have the free, informed consent of young patients or their legal representatives, based on appropriate information.