WINNIPEG (CP) — A Jehovah’s Witness teenager with Crohn’s disease says she may end up leaving Manitoba for treatment after the province’s highest court denied her the right to reject blood transfusions.

In a unanimous decision released Tuesday, the Manitoba Court of Appeal ruled a lower-court judge was correct in allowing doctors to give the 15-year-old Winnipeg girl a transfusion they considered medically necessary.

The girl, who can’t be identified, says she was overwhelmed and scared when she was given blood against her will last April during a flare-up of her Crohn’s, a chronic illness that can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract.

She went to court to make sure it would never happen again.

"Really the decision is almost forcing me to move out of the province if I want to make my own medical decisions that would keep in mind my religious beliefs," the girl told The Canadian Press.

"I wanted to be viewed as a capable person and really not have a government decide for me what should happen."

Some Jehovah’s Witnesses oppose transfusions because they interpret certain passages of the Bible as forbidding the ingestion of blood.
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She should have known better. Till your 18 you have no rights. Still 2nd case of JW and blood transfusions I've heard of in 2 weeks.