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The article records that after the Chicago trial court found seventeen-year-old E.G. to be a mature minor it nonetheless authorised transfusion, and that ‘the transfusion was forcibly given to Ernestine in spite of her vigorous protests’.

Claim ID claim-blood-1994-gregory-forced-transfusionConcerns 1987Explicit statement
Explicit statement · 1987 Verified

The article records that after the Chicago trial court found seventeen-year-old E.G. to be a mature minor it nonetheless authorised transfusion, and that ‘the transfusion was forcibly given to Ernestine in spite of her vigorous protests’. Awake!, 22 May 1994

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Awake!, “Youths Who Have “Power Beyond What Is Normal””

22 May 1994 · p.15 · par. 59 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.

“The court found that Ernestine was a mature 17-year-old, able to make informed medical decisions; yet, amazingly, the court granted an order allowing blood transfusions. At the hospital two doctors were standing by, transfusion equipment set up, and as soon as the court’s decision came in, the transfusion was forcibly given to Ernestine in spite of her vigorous protests.”

The article’s account of the trial-court stage of the Chicago proceedings reported as In re E.G. It names Dr Stanley Yachnin, Dr Ner Littner and the hospital’s attorney Jane McAtee as witnesses, all three of whom appear in the reported judgments.

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Confidence note. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and the wording, page marker and paragraph confirmed against the article text.

Corroborated by. src-g-1994-0522-power-beyond-normal, src-g94d-ilsc-1989-eg-transfusions

Notes. The reported judgments record that E.G. received several transfusions over a period of weeks under a guardianship order, not a single forced transfusion.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-g94d-gregory-forced-transfusion

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