"You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood" (Lev. 17:14). This is just one of many scriptures in the Bible that Jehovah's Witnesses base their beliefs on. To summarize the excerpt above, Jehovah's Witnesses firmly believe that contributing to the health of their body through any type of blood material is not intended by God's will. However, in severe cases, it is necessary to raise ethical questions regarding mental capacity and the patient's legal jurisdiction. In special cases involving minor patients, where mental capacity is taken into consideration, parents should not have a dominant opinion on how their child wants to undergo surgery based on their own personal beliefs. The hospital was presented with a difficult decision to make regarding a particular case involving a minor Jehovah's Witness. A fifteen-year-old girl was brought to the emergency room after being the victim of a car accident. There are four options that the doctor can consider: refuse the operation, perform the operation without blood taking into account the wishes of the parents, perform the operation with blood respecting the patient's decision, or complete the operation with blood and do not inform the parents. When asking whether or not the parents should make the decision for the child in this case, concerns may arise about whether the patient is being put in danger by their own parents. When a parent bases a life-saving decision on religious beliefs that the patient may not reciprocate, are they caring for the child or their religious reputation? In this particular case, the patient's surgery would be a low-risk, high-benefit procedure and the patient expresses her wishes in favor of... half of the paper... use? Remember, Jehovah requires that we abstain from blood. This means that we must absolutely not introduce other people's blood into our bodies, nor even our own stored blood. (Acts 21:25) So true Christians will not accept a blood transfusion. They will accept other types of medical care, such as transfusion of non-blood products. They want to live, but they will not try to save their lives by breaking God's laws.​—Matthew 16:25. Justice is the fourth and final principle of medical ethics. In all legal respects, all situations that the doctor can choose are perfectly legal, however, in this case there is a conflict of interest regarding the patient's religious beliefs compared to the religious beliefs of the parents and the church. It is permissible to perform the surgery knowing that the legal guardians do not approve the patient's wishes?