Tranfusión de Sangre en Seguidores de la Religión Testigos de Jehová: Marco Constitucional del Derecho a la Salud y a la Libertad de Cultos

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to answer the following question: How is the tension between the right to freedom of worship and the right to health resolved in the Colombian Constitutional framework, with reference to Jehovah's Witnesses? developing the different aspects within the constitutional framework in which the right to health and freedom of worship can be guaranteed, for the transfusion of blood to people who are part of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious community. For the purposes of the above, emphasis will be placed on the mandate of optimization between the rights to health and freedom of worship, facing the reality of this specific population, in order for the judicial system to guarantee and ensure both. The methodology used in our project is analytical, which consists of a procedure that decomposes a whole in its basic elements and, therefore, that goes from the general to the specific, trying to cover all the content of the specific topic, exposing each of its edges, from an empirical reasoning that allows the understanding of the phenomena that are presented around the research