Here the prime sources of data are Watchtower publications.
THE DATA
FACT ONE (from Watchtower Magazine 15 October, 1993 p32)
Doctor X, sympathetic to the Jehovah's Witnesses, stated that to forego blood transfusions increases the mortality rate for a standard operating procedure from c0.5% to c1.5% (in the advanced world).
FACT TWO (from Awake! Magazine 22 November, 1992 p27)
The academic study conducted by the world-renowned physician Dr. Charles Baron concluded that there is on average only 'one death for every 13,000 bottles of blood transfused.'
Now 0.5% = 1 in 200.
It would be wrong to conclude that for the two "facts" to square up, there would need to be 13,000/200 = 65 bottles of blood used per standard operation procedure (which would suggest that Doctor X's data was wrong!).
This is because blood transfusions are used other than for standard operating procedures - say for routine blood changes or post-op work, and mortality rates may be much lower for these other uses.
So, let us give Doctor X - the one who is sympathetic to the JWs - the benefit of the doubt, and use his figures - the Watchtower was happy to!
1.5% - 0.5% = 1%, which is the linear increase in mortality rate ACCORDING TO THE WATCHTOWER ITSELF from "going bloodless"! And that is discounting third-world considerations, where bloodless surgery techniques are less advanced and the increase in mortality rate is likely to be higher.
Even JWs can work out that 1% = 1 in 100.
So 1 in 100 JWs or dependents undergoing standard operating procedures die unnecessarily (i.e., due to refusing blood) - BY THEIR **OWN** FIGURES.
Now, data gleaned at a variety of medical sites including Medline and BMJ suggest that at some point in our lives, c50% of us will undergo one or more standard operating procedures. Let us say half of these (25%) would involve a blood transfusion (the true proportion is higher, but I am trying to be fair to the Watchtower).
Let us take average life-expectancy to be 70 years.
Worldwide JW Memorial attendance is a good approximation to the number of JWs and dependents (for whom JWs would make life-or-death decisions) - it currently runs at about 15.5 million judging by their own claims.
We shall assume that 90% of all such people facing a blood transfusion decision refuse it, directly or indirectly (via their "No Blood" card and the hawklike JW "Hospital Liaison Committee" if they are unconscious).
From this we can arrive at a "lowest" estimate of the ANNUAL death rate that is a DIRECT result of the Watchtower's unscriptural and illogical blood ban using simple math:
THE EXTRA DEATHS!
It is 15,500,000 x 90% x 25% / 70 / 100 = 500 UNNECESSARY DEATHS PER YEAR
That is almost 10 JWs a week. For whom the Watchtower bears BLOODGUILT.
MANY OF THEM ARE INNOCENT KIDS
AND THIS IS A "LOWEST POSSIBLE" CALCULATION
The real figures are likely to be higher, because of third world (where, increasingly, most JWs live) considerations and because of the other factors stated above (I have always erred on the side favoring the Watchtower - unlike them, I am scrupulously fair).
And remember - this is using the Watchtower's own statistics, and using numbers given by a doctor quoted by the Watchtower in their own defence! As the Watchtower managed to inflate their estimate of the number of JWs killed by the Nazi's from several hundred to 4,000 (and quite a few more figures in between), you can judge for yourself how much reliability to place on these numbers...
My guess of the TRUE EXTRA DEATH RATE is probably in the order of one thousand extra deaths per year, or three a day.
HERE IS A USENET JW-APOLOGIST ON THE SUBJECT
"how many people died because of taken blood, how many needed blood and given blood still died.you dont get headlines in the newspapers saying( man dies after given blood transfusion or blood tranfusion kills man). got the point im trying to make here."
But BY THE WATCHTOWER'S OWN "BEST" FIGURES, MORTALITY RATES ON STANDARD (not just serious) OPERATING PROCEDURES ***TRIPLES*** (1.5/0.5) WHEN YOU REFUSE A TRANSFUSION !!!
SO, WHY DID THE WATCHTOWER ADMIT IT?
Some of you might wonder why the Watchtower published any figures at all for this, given that they are so damaging to their (utterly false) suggestion that risks are broadly comparable..
But in the early 1990s, when they published their data (buried in long articles decrying blood transfusions, and doubtless relying on the laziness, poor reading and math skills etc of the average JW), TOBACCO COMPANIES were increasingly being targeted by punitive legal actions claiming that they knew tobacco was harmful but failed to release data to enable a person to make an INFORMED DECISION about risks.
And since we know what is most important to the "NON-PROPHET" Organization, no more needs be said!
HOW MANY DEATHS IN TOTAL?
Now the WTBTS started their campaign against blood in 1945, describing transfusions as being pagan and God-dishonoring (in the 7/1 WT pp198-201). But the blood-ban campaign did not gather full swing for a few years after that. If we say it has been policy for 50 years, we will not be wrong.
Now the current level of >500 unnecessary deaths per year reflects the current membership level. If we perform the same calculation over the last 50 years, we arrive at a lower-end estimate of some 12,000 unnecessary deaths at the hands of the Watchtower!
TWELVE THOUSAND!!!!!!!!!
No other Cult has done as well!!
In fairness, I should add that to arrive at the twelve thousand cumulative count figure, I have assumed that the absence of bloodless surgery techniques in early days would have elevated early mortality rates (so the differential was the c1.5% suggested by the 2 "FACTS" together, and not the 1% figure from the 1990s). If we do not do this, the figure might be as low as EIGHT THOUSAND UNNECESSARY DEATHS.
Of course, in all the other areas the WT has been given the benefit of the doubt...
AND EVERY JW IS GUILTY OF MURDER, BY WATCHTOWER'S OWN TEACHING
And ALL JWs are liable to God for this FOUL GENOCIDE, by their own WT teachings RE COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY and COLLECTIVE BLOODGUILT!
"The people must accept responsibility for the nation's acts .. Nations operate according to the principle of community responsibility. Rulers may start wars, but the people fight them. It is upon the people generally, young and old, male and female, that the enemy nation rains destruction, and not upon the wicked rulers. The nations in their wars sow death on the basis of community responsibility .. If the people either actively or passively support what is corrupt and immoral and murderous, do they not bear some responsibility therefore?" - 1952WTWR 06 01 344-5
"For one thing, Pharaoh alone could not have oppressed the nation of Israel or defied Jehovah. That took a mighty organization; and so all who supported Pharaoh in his God-defying and oppressive measures became parties to his crimes.. The common people of Egypt, who, as Pharaoh's willing supporters, had a community responsibility, picture those of humankind today who willingly support Satan's visible organization." - 1965WTWR 06 15 366/369
"Some have not willfully and deliberately done so, but share community responsibility for supporting the spilling of blood in wars." - 1966WTWR 09 15 550
"Another way in which a person can unwittingly become bloodguilty is by reason of the principle of community responsibility. If one belongs to a religious organization that has shed blood in times past, or that may bless those who do shed innocent blood, then by reason of association he would share in its bloodguilt." - 1970AWAK 10 22 28
"We personally may not desire to show disrespect for God's name, but, if we have any religious connection, the question for us to ask ourselves is: Do I belong to a religious denomination that disrespects and defames God's name in these and other ways? Suppose that any of us do. Well, then, we should know the course for us to take if we respect God's name. What? This, namely, to disengage ourselves from sharing in the community responsibility of such a religious denomination before the Bible God" - 1971WTWR 11 01 647
"the clergy of Christendom .. the 'man of lawlessness' .. Of course, what one prominent member of this clerical 'man' does attaches blame to all the other members of the clergy class for their agreeing with what is done or not protesting against it or for acquiescing in it and remaining with the clergy organization. They all share a community responsibility and culpability for what a member of the clergy class does in a representative way as when speaking or acting for the whole group." - 1973GKTY 380-1
"They want no share in the community responsibility for the sins and corruption of politics. They know that the ones who keep clean from such worldly defilements will be the ones whom God will preserve into His new order." - 1973WTWR 11 15 693
"In similar fashion, the modern-day remnant of spiritual Israel had to do some reforming as to their way and thoughts as World War I ended on November 11, 1918, and they entered still alive on earth into the postwar period. Their exile from God's full favor in Babylon the Great's realm was about to end, and it became the proper time for they to think about their failings and shortcomings with regard to God's worship and service. They had come under a community responsibility because of the bloodshed and violence of World War I. They needed to search for Jehovah and to call upon His name in prayer .. During World War I of 1914-1918 B.C.E., some of the remnant of spiritual Israel accepted non-combatant service in the fighting armies, and thus they came under bloodguilt because of their sharing in community responsibility for the blood spilled in war. However, in 1939, the year in which World War II erupted, all the remnant of spiritual Israel and also those of the 'great crowd' of sheeplike companions declared themselved in favor of absolute neutrality toward all worldly conflicts, regardless of nationality. The publication of the article 'Neutrality' in the issue of November 1, 1939, of The Watchtower set forth their position." - 1975MSWD 114/187-8
"Why Will Christendom Not Survive? .. Bloodguilty Christendom of today, with her pagan customs, man-made traditions, and mixture of heathen philosophies with Bible teachings, will fare no better than her ancient prototype. She will not escape sharing in the fulfillment of Jehovah's prophecy: 'A great tempest itself will be roused up from the remotest parts of the earth. And those slain by Jehovah will certainly come to be in that day from one end of the earth clear to the other end of the earth. They will not be bewailed, neither will they be gathered up or be buried. As manure on the surface of the ground they will become.' (Jer. 25:32,33) No! Christendom will not survive the impending 'great tribulation.' (Matt. 24:1,2,21,22) Moreover, all the rest of the world empire of false religion will closely follow her into destruction!" - 1979WTWR 08 01 16
"The Scriptures show that if we are part of any organization that is bloodguilty before God, we must sever our ties with it if we do not want to share in its sins. (Rev. 18;4,24: Mic. 4:3)" - 1983UWTG 155
"According to the Bible, when we deliberately put someone's life unnecessarily in danger, we could become bloodguilty. (Compare 1 Chronicles 11:17-19.)" - 1985AWAK 06 22
"Bloodguilt .. Truly such bloodguilty ones are not worthy of living half their lives, as David said. (Ps 55:23)" - 1988INS1 0346-7
"It is Satan's earthly organization, his earthly seed. Prominent therein is Babylon the Great, the world empire of false religion.. What a load of bloodguiltiness! As long as Babylon the Great exists, the blood of her victims will cry out for justice.. By the fourth century C.E., that old Serpent, Satan the Devil, had brought forth his masterpiece of deception, the apostate religion of Christendom - a Babylonish system hidden under a 'Christian' veneer. It is the principal part of the seed of the serpent and has developed into a multitude of conflicting sects. Like unfaithful Judah of old, Christendom carries a heavy bloodguilt.. For thousands of years, Babylon the Great has been bloodguilty, and she is a gross fornicatrix.. But her major sins, 'massing together clear up to heaven', are her shocking acts of spiritual fornication - this latter in teaching falsehoods and allying herself with corrupt politicians." - 1988REVE 101-2/272
"Yes, there is such a thing as joint, or community, bloodguilt.. Therefore, the adherents of false religion as well as the supporters and participants in human warfare are bloodguilty before God." - 1995WTWR 11 15 15
"Pass the buck on to the Rank & File.. As we did in '25 and '75!"
AGAIN, THE WTS STANDS BLOODGUILTY, AND DAMNED BY ITS OWN WORDS!
Shameful child-murderers....
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Focus
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Edited by - Focus on 5 March 2001 18:44:52