CANADIAN WOMAN FORMERLY IN WATCHTOWER LEGAL DEPARTMENT BLOWS WHISTLE IN CANADA'S NATION-WIDE PAPER THE NATIONAL POST!!! http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/medical/182165/1/Ex-Wife-of-Canadian-JW-Attorney-Speaks-to-NATIONAL-POST-about-KIDNAPPING-sick-JW-kids

At Matthew 12:7, Christ says “If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent.”  Yet Watchtower's policy has caused some JW parents to sacrifice the lives of their children.

INSIGHTS ABOUT THE BLOOD ISSUE HARMING JWs & JW CHILDREN: CoCo WROTE: "After the Judge's death, as World War II was ending and persecution against the Witnesses began declining, along with the attendant drop in news-media publicity, Hayden C. Covington told the author [of THE FOUR PRESIDENTS] that Fred Franz saw the prohibition against blood transfusions as a way to accomplish two things: to continue to publicize the religion, and to create an uproar in the community. This reaction would convince the membership they were being "persecuted" and "suffering for righteousness sake," a sure sign they were 'in the truth.'" According to Jerry Bergman, author of BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS: A HISTORY AND EVALUATION OF THE RELIGIOUS, BIBLICAL, AND MEDICAL OBJECTIONS, 1994 "The blood issue has brought witnesses more publicity than any other issue in the last twenty years." "The ban on blood transfusions was an effort to solidify the Knorr administration." [Knorr initially objected to the weird scriptural interpretation justifying the abstaining from blood; he understood the scriptures to be in reference to animal blood only. Nevertheless, he went along with the ban. While Rutherford swallowed some irrational rantings by Franz and Woodworth over the beginnings of the blood issue, he would not allow publication of FWF's "special knowledge" as "new light" in THE WATCHTOWER. The two mischief makers kept things stirred up and began convincing others, including Knorr. The author was told that now that "King Saul" [FWF] is dead, the leadership would like blood transfusions to be a matter of conscience and lay the blame for all the suffering at the feet of Franz and Woodworth. ALSO FROM "COMPOND-COMPLEX":  DEATH PREFERABLE TO HAVING A BLOOD TRANSFUSION      "If followers of the Watch Tower Society understood the source of the edict for the refusal of blood transfusions, they would reject it immediately, as having no relevance to the passages of Scripture they use to impose this restriction.      "All responsible Bible scholars reject this unscriptural Watch Tower edict, and for the first sixty years of the Society's existence, it was not even suggested by founder Russell, or his successor Rutherford.      "Clayton Woodworth, editor of THE GOLDEN AGE magazine (renamed CONSOLATION, now AWAKE!) from 1919 to 1946, was eccentric and wildly irrational. He hated the medical establishment with a passion, and especially the American Medical Association.      "Unbelievably, this man, who later would advance the view that members should die before submitting to a blood transfusion, also denied the germ theory of disease, condemned all vaccinations and medicines (including aspirin), warned against "poisonous" aluminum cookware and the chlorination of water, and held a number of other strange notions on healthcare treatment. The more he jostled with the medical establishment, stirring up controversy, the better Rutherford liked it." Information on the Watch Tower's 60-plus-year battle with the medical establishment will follow. Woodworth was a major contributor, but the lambasting of orthodox medical treatment began long before he took the helm. THE FOUR PRESIDENTS OF THE WATCH TOWER SOCIETY (JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES), Edmond C. Gruss, Editor, pp. 74, 230. Compound-Complex