should the parents of JW's be overruled from life saving blood transfusions for their kids?

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That’s all a matter of perspective - why are the parents saying no?? After all, this is their flesh and blood. We have every reason to presume that they are inclined towards saving their child’s life and preserving its health. There are those horrific people out there - thankfully tiny in number - who either don’t care about their children or even harm them. In this case, then neither the doctor nor the State are the appropriate individuals to intervene, the appropriate persons to intervene are the extended family.

Kids can’t want or not want treatments… what they want is the approval and care of their parents and other caretakers.

They are allowed to do precisely that - they are allowed to prohibit anyone from providing any sort of care they do not want the child to receive. That’s precisely what guardianship rights are. You would be familiar with this concept if you had read the thread I linked above where this topic is discussed at length.

Clayton -

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Frankly, if you’re a parent and have a certain set of beliefs regarding medical treatment you should make the effort to find out which hospitals in your area provide medical care in accordance to your belief. There are hospitals, for example, which perform surgical operations which don’t require blood-transfusions.

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Should parents be allowed not to vaccinate their children? Should parents be allowed to pump their children with aluminum-filled vaccines?

At some point we have to solve the problem that there is no final arbiter of truth on the one hand and that we want to protect children from abuse on the other.

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The answer is in the parents’ life insurance policy. You have to read the fine print.

Imagine if every single one of their neighbors did not care what those parents did to their children.