O direito à liberdade religiosa e o direito à vida: o conflito existente nos casos em que a transfusão de sangue é um meio necessário para salvar a vida do paciente testemunha de jeová

Abstract

After analyzing the questions presented in chapters one, two and three, we will now seek to answer the following question: In the urgency of a case, where blood transfusion is one of the necessary means to save the life of a Jehovah's Witness patient, it is possible to say that there is, for such a patient, a right to refuse to receive such treatment, when this will is expressed by a civilly capable individual and in a conscious manner, based on their religious convictions?