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The Seattle Times (Associated Press), “Judge: 14-year-old Jehovah's Witness can refuse blood transfusion”

28 November 2007Source ID src-ap-2007-1128-lindberg-seattletimesAccessed 19 September 2026
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The Seattle Times (Associated Press), “Judge: 14-year-old Jehovah's Witness can refuse blood transfusion”

28 November 2007 · Associated Press · The Seattle Times

“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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