The BLOOD DOCTRINE: Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide, Hierarchical Medical Command System Puts Kids in Danger
In custody battles, medical issues often arise due to the worldwide policy of Jehovah’s Witnesses. JWs believe in no blood transfusions, in the event of a life-or-death medical emergency; they choose death. This, of course, is a danger when a child is in a medical crisis.
Jehovah’s Witnesses activate HLC (Hospital Liaison Committees) anytime a JW or their child is in the hospital. Why? To enforce organizational policies (to the death) of any (victim) member. These so-called Elders are simply lay ministers with no medical credentials who give life-ending medical advice to people who are in crisis. In simpler terms, they are “death squads” to see that people obey religious interpretations over proper medical assistance.
Below, you will find a translation of the latest interpretation of Jehovah's Witnesses' international blood policy, as presented at a leaked 2024 Portuguese meeting.
Understand that if you have children who are connected to Jehovah’s Witnesses, they are taught that God will kill them if they accept blood. In their articles, children are presented as martyrs who go straight to a paradise earth if they rip life-saving blood injections from their arms.
Article about JW children who died not taking blood
You can review an English translation of the HLC Manual or see summary below:
Part 1 in English: https://download.avoidjw.org/s/St3JAsTZTwx4JYP
Part 2 in English: https://download.avoidjw.org/s/YBYE3cp3DxSz7Kd
Part 3 in English: https://download.avoidjw.org/s/4oZA9Z65ZoaJx35
1. The Chain of command for controlling medical decisions:
Global HQ medical research unit
Branch-level medical enforcement departments
Local HLC teams
Patient Visitation Groups that track hospitalized Witnesses
The manual's medical command system (HIS → HID → HLC → PVG). This isn’t pastoral care. It’s a centralized compliance mechanism ensuring blood refusal remains uniform and enforced. It’s presented like a corporate medical liaison department, but with zero medical expertise.
HLC members are expected to intervene in medical crises—without medical credentials.
Branding members
2. Elders (with no medical training) are instructed to insert themselves into medical crises.
In Part 1, Chapter 2, and Part 3, Chapter 7, they’re told to: gather medical facts, assess urgency, identify appropriate doctors, “coordinate care,” All while being warned not to look like medical professionals.
It’s the perfect setup for elders to influence life-and-death decisions while avoiding liability. This blurs boundaries between spiritual authority and medical influence, classic high-control behavior.
Child blood card
3. They are to collect sensitive patient medical data, then scrub and destroy records to avoid traceability.
Part 3, Chapter 9: The manual instructs: collecting detailed case notes, centralizing them, removing identifiers, destroying files after 5 years, avoiding digital footprints in emails, mimicking official letterhead, but with no logos
That’s not normal pastoral care— that’s risk-management and deniability. Not to mention EXTREMELY illegal and an invasion of privacy.
Member wrist bands
4. HLC and visitation members MUST be vaccinated (framed as a spiritual requirement).
Part 1, Chapter 2 and Part 2, Chapter 3: The document frames vaccination as mandatory, symbolic, proof of “respect for life,” and required for participation in HLC/PVG roles.
It’s a selective, optics-driven stance, particularly stark given their history on medical control.
HLC's are told to build long-term influence with hospitals, courts, and medical staff.
The manual also instructs members to: Cultivate relationships with doctors, speak at medical events, “correct misconceptions", promote bloodless medicines, and subtly shape hospital policies. This is corporate lobbying disguised as a ministry.
5. They instruct members to project confidence, authority, and composure—even during medical emergencies.
Part 3, Chapter 6: The manual drills: dress codes, confidence projection, composure routines, messaging discipline. Sound like care-giving to you?
The tone is not “help the patient,” it’s “represent us well.”
6. Women are allowed to help, but only in strictly limited, non-decision roles.
Part 2, Chapter 5: Women can: Distribute materials, answer medical questions (if qualified)
Women cannot: Be HLC members or participate in decisions.
Classic JW gender hierarchy is baked into medical policy.
7. HLC members must be “constantly reachable” and ready to sacrifice personal life.
Part 3, Chapter 7: They’re explicitly told to be: Always available, ready to drop personal commitments, and willing to sacrifice comfort and time
It’s high-control behavior disguised as “service.”
8. Patients are tracked like operational units.
Part 1, Chapter 1, and Part 3, Chapter 9: Through: Territories, case logs, lodging plans, treatment routing, "difficult case" escalation systems
Various cards carried by members over the years
This doesn’t function like spiritual care; it functions like logistical management. This is exactly the kind of structural pressure that makes people die for doctrine. People need to see this. Children need to be protected from this warped enforcement by JW death squads.