Ethical Dilemmas: Jehovah's Witnesses

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Being able to refuse treatment for your child is your own choice you can base your choice off many things like risks, if the treatment is truly needed, and religion. Some parents believe that if a child gets a blood transfusion they will go to Hell because it says in The Bible, these people are Jehovah’s Witnesses; this is considered an ethical dilemma because there are two morally right choices based on which side you take. An ethical dilemma is essentially to choose between two or more morally correct or morally wrong choices.
With ethical dilemmas come problems, religion plays a large role in our community about 0.8% of the United States population is a Jehovah’s Witness, that may seem like a tiny amount but that’s actually about 2.5 million

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