The Watchtower Victims Memorial is dedicated to the memory of Jehovah's Witnesses and their minor children who died as a result of the Brooklyn-based Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's decrees banning blood transfusions, organ transplants, skin grafts, and vaccinations -- as well as other individuals whose deaths due to suicide, abandonment, etc., are attributable to the Watchtower Society in the view of surviving loved ones.
More about Emelie Grootjes
Nineteen-year-old Emelie Grootjes died in 1996 at Poole General Hospital. According to the DAILY MIRROR article reproduced here, Dr. Barry Newman said a blood transfusion "would have given her a 90 percent chance of survival."
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