I read the following:
"The more i read into the work of the Witnesses the more i feel it is truly sent by the Lord. The role these people have played in revolutionizing the surgical industry and saving lives is unparalleled. Once these alternative blood sciences are perfected it will be one of the greatest breakthroughs in medical history and IMHO will save countless lives. …."
I also read:
“I'm willing to bet 99% of the people that died from supposedly not receiving them, due to there faith, would have died anyway....I know if the only thing keeping me alive was countless blood transfusions i would rather be dead anyway...who would want to live a life in that much pain just barely hanging on.”
Though in many cases a blood transfusion may be unnecessary to protect a patient’s health or life, there are cases where it is essential because of limited medical options or presentation (ie. serious trauma). Ask any medical doctor. No one wants a therapy or a procedure just because it sounds great. The medical and scientific information has shown that lives can be sustained and premature death can be avoided when blood or substances of blood are used properly. This has been demonstrated time and time in many trauma cases and cancer cases.
Just as with organ donation therapy and procedures, other techniques in blood medicine are being made and improved to reduce one's risk to injury or possible death from the procedure.
It should be clear that with any therapy, a person must make an informed choice to determine whether the therapy will or will not work. This is not the case with Jehovah’s Witness patients who are subject to severe shunning and loss of God if they do not follow the leadership’s direction and subject to scare tactics that blood is dangerous.
The leadership now promotes vaccinations which contain substances of blood, serums which contain substances of blood, breast feeding where supposed banned white blood cells transfer between mother to child and organ transplants which also contain some of the donor’s blood. All of these procedures carry a risk to injury and in fact the risk of premature death from an organ transplant is significantly higher than that of stored and donated blood.
The leadership (and as it seems Mr. Cauthorn) forgets that the clotting substance in blood called Factor XIII and made from 2,500 litres of donated and stored blood was approved by the leadership in the 1970s for hemophiliacs. This was at the height of the AIDs crisis in the blood supply and thus, unlike what some suggest, the leadership offered no protection to its hemophiliac followers during these times. It wasn't until government oversight investigated the people in charge, charged and convicted these people for not properly testing the blood and created new testing and oversight methods were hemophiliacs protected.
It is interesting listening to Witnesses such as Mr. Cauthorn tout and promote bloodless surgery. One bloodless surgery technique involves having your own blood stored and then transfused back into you at a later time – this bloodless technique is actually banned by the leadership.
Bloodless proedures do involve techniques such as cell saver machines (intraoperative autologous transfusions) and hemodilution. These techniques are presently allowed by the leadership and even promoted as shown by Mr. Cauthorn. Yet both hemodilution and cell savers are actually blood transfusions of one’s own blood. The only difference is the blood outside the body is connected to a machine via a tube. There is no section in the Bible where it states blood outside of the body is okay as long as a medium called a polyethylene plastic tube is connected from human to machine and surrounds the blood from the atmosphere.
Also it appears Mr. Cauthorn forgot to say that both these two approved bloodless techniques were actually banned by the leadership until 1982 for hemodilution (June 22, 1982 Awake! magazine) and 1989 for cell savage machines (March 1, 1989 Watchtower).
As can be seen from a historical review, the leadership has completely changed course on so-called bloodless surgery techniques just as they have for organ transplants, vaccinations, substances of blood such as Factor VIII, albumin and globulins and recently the substance of blood called haemoglobin.
An absence of sound objective reasoning and lack of full disclosure exist in this leadership’s doctrine that prohibits the free choice of certain medical treatments.
As I said previously, the leadership martyred 26 innocent little children on the front cover of their May 22, 1994 Awake! magazine. This martyring especially of innocent little children needs to stop until full disclosure and sound reasoning are provided and shunning/peer pressure are eliminated.
There were over 500 news article URL's made over this scandal most still dominate the web the public perception of the Watchtower cult is forever exposed as bogus.~Danny Haszard