Transfusion-free medicine for Jehovah's Witnesses

stop drinking the haterade. Your not third generation you choose to be one or not. Everyone is first and last generation. You don't have to be called a Jehovah's Witness. Your not born to be one. Any person can take issue with the care that they got from their parents. Guess what some day you do get your own choice so make it and move on.

If you take 'whole-blood' or autologous (use your own stored blood) you will be shunned by your family and friends.The Watchtower organization is in control of your life.

I don't want someone else's blood in me anymore that I would want their other body parts heart,kidney,liver unless I needed a lifesaving transplant so goes the same with EMERGENCY blood transfusions.

Don't forget the Watchtower ALLOWS organ transplants and you can get get all the same blood borne diseases Aids,hepatitis from someone else's organs same as you can get from blood.

SO WHAT GIVES HERE?

Prohibition of blood given to
Noah and all mankind Genesis 9:34
TO Isreal cut off for eating Leviticus 7:26

To Christians: Acts 15:20,29

To people of nations becoming Christians:Acts:2125

Just a bunch of old men. Yes men who loved and looked to Jehovah God for everlastin Life.

Of course there be fractions of blood in meat, Noah could not eat, but blood was not to be eaten.

A Christian

Many Jehovah's Witnesses men,women and children die every year worldwide due to blood transfusion ban.Rank & file Jehovah's Witness are indoctrinated to be scared to death of blood.
FYI
1) JW's DO USE many parts aka 'fractions' aka components of blood,so if it's 'sacred' to God why the hypocritical contradiction flip-flop?
2) They USE blood collections that are donated by Red cross and others but don't donate back,more hypocrisy.
3) The Watchtower promotes and praises bloodless elective surgeries,this is a great advancement indeed.BUT it's no good to me if I am bleeding to death from a car crash and lose half my blood volume and need EMERGENCY blood transfusion.

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Danny Haszard born 1957 3rd generation Jehovah's Witness

Many Jehovah's Witnesses men,women and children die every year worldwide due to blood transfusion ban.Rank & file Jehovah's Witness are indoctrinated to be scared to death of blood.
FYI
1) JW's DO USE many parts aka 'fractions' aka components of blood,so if it's 'sacred' to God why the hypocritical contradiction flip-flop?
2) They USE blood collections that are donated by Red cross and others but don't donate back,more hypocrisy.
3) The Watchtower promotes and praises bloodless elective surgeries,this is a great advancement indeed.BUT it's no good to me if I am bleeding to death from a car crash and lose half my blood volume and need EMERGENCY blood transfusion.
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Danny Haszard born 1957 3rd generation Jehovah's Witness

(Some educational links provided below:)

http://www.ajwrb.org/ Jehovah Witness blood policy reform site

http://www.towertotruth.net/Articles/blood_transfusions.htm Will you die for a lie?

"Context is everything," someone once said, and such is certainly the case with regard to this Press Release from Dr. Patricia Ford and the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital. Over the past six weeks, the WatchTower Society religion has been inundated with "bad press" due to public outrage over the needless deaths of two young Jehovah's Witnesses.

On October 25, 2007, 22 year-old Emma Gough died at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, in England, after delivering twins - a boy and a girl. Gough suffered excessive blood loss during and after the delivery, but she and her husband, who were Jehovah's Witnesses, refused to permit the administering of life-saving blood transfusions. Gough's death received frontpage attention in England's newspapers for almost a week as readers expressed their outrage that the new mother of twins would choose to die for the teachings of a religious cult rather than choose to live for her newborn son and daughter.

Then, on November 28, 2007, a 14 year-old Jehovah's Witness child, named Dennis Lindberg, died at Seattle's Children's Hospital after his Jehovah's Witness legal guardian, and apparently, the Hospital, his doctors, and eventually a local judge all agreed that, as a "mature minor", Lindberg would be allowed to refuse life-saving blood transfusions made necessary by the chemotherapy treatments Lindberg was receiving for his leukemia that was diagnosed only three weeks earlier.

Bloodless medicine and surgery is to be commended in the context of situations where such can be used and not put patients at risk of death. However, it appears like every time another Jehovah's Witness needlessly dies, articles about bloodless medicine and surgery are trotted out to act as possible "cover" for the beliefs of the WatchTower Society, and possibly to make the deaths of Jehovah's Witnesses look like the responsibility of their ill-informed and ill-prepared doctors and hospitals.

Jehovah's Witnesses elders will investigate and disfellowship any Jehovah Witness who takes a blood transfusion,to say the issue is a 'personal conscience matter' is subterfuge to keep the Watchtower out of lawsuits.

Many Jehovah's Witnesses men,women and children die every year worldwide due to blood transfusion ban.Rank & file Jehovah's Witness are indoctrinated to be scared to death of blood.

FYI
1) JW's DO USE many parts aka 'fractions' aka components of blood,so if it's 'sacred' to God why the hypocritical contradiction flip-flop?

2) They USE blood collections that are donated by Red cross and others but don't donate back,more hypocrisy.

3) The Watchtower promotes and praises bloodless elective surgeries,this is a great advancement indeed.BUT it's no good to me if I am bleeding to death from a car crash and lose half my blood volume and need EMERGENCY blood transfusion.

Know this,the reason that JW refuse blood is because of their spin on the 3000 year old Biblical old testament,modern medicine will eventually make blood donations and transfusions a thing of the past.When this technology happens it won't vindicate the Jehovah's Witnesses and all the deaths that have occured so far.
The Watchtower's rules against blood transfusions will eventually be abolished (very gradually to reduce wrongful death lawsuit liability) even now most of the blood 'components' are allowed.
In 20 years there will be artificial blood and the Red Cross will go on with other noble deeds.

None of these changes will absolve the Watchtower leaders or vindicate their twisted doctrines.
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Danny Haszard born 1957 3rd generation Jehovah's Witness

I wonder if this is is going to be an emerging trend in medicine: pick a minority with strange beliefs/conditions, develop therapy & techniques suitable for them, test and refine and later, release into the general patient community.