As we all unfortunately know the WTS leaders' are teaching that certain, approved blood "fractions", such as albumin, of banned "components", have been identified in scientific reports to "naturally move" through the placental barrier during pregnancy. The leadership believes that since God allows these blood "fractions", such as albumin, to "naturally" pass from mother to child, it is logical to conclude that God wouldn't break his own law. Thus, it becomes a matter of the conscience for the witness.
Of course we all know that the WTS leaders, who are offering medical and scientific interpretations, appear to not disclose to the Witnesses that the same medical science over the last 10-30 years has already shown that practically all banned blood "components", including fetal nucleated red blood cells and white blood cells, pass through the placental barrier as well. But that is a different story for a different day.
So why am I boring you nice people today. Like, we all have much better crap we can be doing, right??
Well, have you ever heard of TTTS? Do you care??? Just in case you missed it try clicking on
http://tttsfoundation.com or http://www.thefetus.net/sections/articles/Multiple_gestations/Twin-to-twin_transfusion_syndrome.html
What is TTTS???
Well it stands for Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome!!!!!!!!!
Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS) is a disease of the placenta. It affects identical twins during pregnancy when blood passes disproportionately from one baby to the other through connecting blood vessels within their shared placenta. One baby, the recipient twin, gets too much blood overloading his or her cardiovascular system, and may die from heart failure. The other baby, the donor twin, does not get enough blood and may die from severe anemia. The babies are normal. The abnormalities are in the placenta.
Why does Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome Happen?
TTTS is a disease that only affects identical twins who are monochorionic-diamniotic or monochorionic-monoamniotic. See Chart Identical twins do not run in families but occur randomly. Identical twins occur when the fertilized egg (morula) splits after conception. No one knows why an embryo splits to make identical twins, so we don't know why TTTS happens. What we do know, is that the later, in days after conception, that the embryo splits, the more problems that are seen including the syndrome. The occurrence of embryo splitting is out of our control. Most twin to twin transfusion syndrome pregnancies are seen with monochorionic-diamniotic twins.
The Recipient Twin - The Larger Baby
The recipient twin is receiving too much blood because some of the blood vessels of the other baby, in the placenta, look like a "fork in the road" and split. These vessels then cross their shared placenta over to the recipient twin. Because the recipient twin is getting his or her own blood, plus the extra blood, he becomes larger in size. This is one of the first signs of the syndrome. This extra blood is very thick like syrup. Because the blood is so thick, the baby's heart has to work harder to pump the blood. Because of the extra blood, the baby is urinating a lot. Amniotic fluid is generated by the baby urinating. This causes the recipient twin to have too much amniotic fluid. When TTTS is diagnosed midway through a pregnancy (approximately 16 to 26 weeks) 80-100% of these babies may pass away due to heart failure if nothing is done to help them.
The Donor Twin - The Smaller Baby
The donor twin is smaller and is often called the "stuck twin". This baby is getting too little blood and thus, does not urinate very much. This is why there is very little fluid in his or her amniotic sac. When born, it is often the donor twin who does better, because they are not as tired. Their heart has not had to over exert itself pumping the extra blood. However, when TTTS is diagnosed midway through pregnancy, 80-100% of these smaller babies may pass away if nothing is done to help them. They pass away from heart failure due to severe anemia.
Just go look at the diagram in one of those links I showed you. So we see God is allowing one fetus (a human according to the WTS) to "NATURALLY" transfer its blood to another fetus (another human)!!!!!!!
Knowing the WT leaders they will come up with some bogus reply like seeing a lot of babies die from TTTS, this is a reason why God doesn't want us JWs to transfuse our blood. Or they will come up with some other unbelievable crap response.
But to us folk who live in the real world TTTS shows one human "NATURALLY" receiving WHOLE BLOOD from another human.
Oh, just in case you think those pesky Hospital Information Services (HIS) folks in Brooklyn don't know this little tid bit of information, why don't you consider this .... The "HIS" researches over 3,600 journals on the topic of blood and gives presentations to the medical community on the WTS blood doctrine. If they don't know about TTTS then I am rocky the flying squirrel!!!!
I just thought inquiring minds would like to know there are "natural ways" whole blood is transferred between two humans.
Have a nice debate on the topic and I would love to hear Lee Elders and Dr. Sam Muramoto's comments on this minor little topic of natural whole blood transfer between two humans!!!
Hawk (who is wondering what else you guys haven't been told by that society)
Edited by - hawkaw on 23 March 2001 15:0:51
Edited by - hawkaw on 23 March 2001 15:4:32