JWS can get organ transplants now??????

by aquagirl 13 Replies latest jw friends

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  blondie

  Organ transplants can be done without blood....
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  nelly136

  todays light http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2000/1/8/article_01.htm

  AT AGE 61, José, a Belgian from the small town of Oupeye, was told that he would need a liver transplant. "It was the shock of my life," he says. Just four decades ago, liver transplants were unthinkable. Even in the 1970's, the survival rate was only about 30 percent. Today, however, liver transplants are routinely performed, with a much higher success rate.

  (they seem to have forgotten to mention that the borg didnt approve of them back then and changed their minds later)

  http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/index.php/watchtower_quotes/medical-science/transplant/

  Watchtower 1967 November 15 pp.702-4 Questions from Readers

  Those who submit to such operations are thus living off the flesh of another human. That is cannibalistic. However, in allowing man to eat animal flesh Jehovah God did not grant permission for humans to try to perpetuate their lives by cannibalistically taking into their bodies human flesh, whether chewed or in the form of whole organs or body parts taken from others.…

  *** Awake! 1968 June 8 p.21 ***

  There are those, such as the Christian witnesses of Jehovah, who consider all transplants between humans as cannibalism…
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  nelly136

  probably totally irrelevant but just struck me as funny.

  i put cannabalism in the search on watchtower.org and found

  http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2004/12/1/article_02.htm

  What if you had been born into a society that viewed cannibalism as a virtuous act? Would that have meant that eating human flesh was not really wrong? The popularity of a practice does not make it right. Long ago, the Bible warned against that trap, saying: “You must not follow after the crowd for evil ends.”— Exodus 23:2 .
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  daystar

  Hmmm, even funnier (maybe just sad) is that I never knew, until I joined JWD, that transplants were ever a no-no. I was only 7 in 1980, but still, I was imbedded and active enough (had my first talk(reading) at 7) that I would think that would have been something I picked up.