by jwfacts 25 Replies latest watchtower medical
* w97 1/15 p. 21 par. 17 What Does God Require of Us? *
Blood represents life. Therefore, blood too is sacred in God’s eyes
What is sacred about taking the blood of an "unbeliever", treating it , breaking it down into fractions, storing it ?-the fraction being then injected or transfused, into a believing dub who goes home with a clean conscience before the WTS..
If it was really sacred then you would not touch it.
Excellent point BluesBrother
Doubting Bro writes: "I believe there will come a time in the not too distant future (either a sucessful lawsuit or the death of the major forces with Bethel that are behind the ban) when the medical use of blood will be viewed as an organ transplant."
I agree. And they've already prepared the way.
(Credit to bulldozer [18. September 2006])
***g73 6/8 p.15 Blood Transfusions - a Biological "Sin"***
Since the blood cells are normally destroyed in sixty days and the liquid content turnover is even more rapid, a blood transfusion is a temporary or a transient transplant of a liquid organ. Indeed, this is undoubtedly the reason for its general acceptance at a time when organ transplantation is considered experimental.
***g74 3/22 p.21 My Life as a Surgeon***
Blood transfusion is now recognized as a dangerous procedure-as hazardous as any other organ transplant.
***bq p.41 Jehovah's Witnesses and the Question of Blood***
Consequently, whether having religious objections to blood transfusions or not, many a person might decline blood simply because it is essentially an organ transplant that at best is only partially compatible with his own blood.
***hb p.8 Blood Transfusions - How Safe?***
a transfusion is a tissue transplant.
***g90 10/22 p.9 Gift of Life or Kiss of Death?***
As cardiovascular surgeon Denton Cooley notes: "A blood transfusion is an organ transplant. . . . I think that there are certain incompatibilities in almost all blood transfusions."
***g99 8/22 p.31 Are Blood Transfusions Really Necessary?***
Blood is an organ of the body, and blood transfusion is nothing less than an organ transplant.
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Perhaps this was intended to introduce a change in the Blood policy?
***g00 1/8 Pioneers in Medicine***
[Footnote]
Jehovah's Witnesses view organ transplant operations as a matter of individual conscience.
I have said this many times on this forum but I'll say it one last time for posterity.
I am one of the people harmed by the waffling on the fraction issue. If you read Crisis of Conscience you will remember the thing about hemophiliacs. Some of us survived it but I bet most died.
They used to laud jehoho each time I survived, even though a day before they were downplaying the severity of the risk. Then they'd say I was alive because I had faith. Uh, no, it's not because I had faith in your Imaginary Platelet Fairy....it's because statistically speaking, SOME hemophiliacs will survive SOME of their bleeds without intervention. Eventually they will have an untreated bleed that will kill them. Those that don't kill them harm muscles, joints, and organs....and, you IDIOTS, letting them deplete what little clotting factor their body naturally has is practically assuring they will have a worse bleed very soon, DUH!
Bastards.
I believe I have lasting physical damage as a result of it, though it's a little hard to prove (in court). Thank you to AJWRB for first telling me this and then to the book and this forum for further info on it. I wept when I found out what was going on behind the scenes when they were playing life-and-death games with me.
JWFacts has done a lot of work on this topic and I appreciate that.
I wonder if "fractions of fornication" would now be acceptable?
Hoohaahaaa!! ROFL
Thanks unconfused - needed that laugh!
