My mum,while on a hospital ward saw several jws on her ward who refused blood transfusions, and were very white as a result,I personally saw an elderly person, possibly a jw, who looked very white.
JWS IN HOSPITAL
by badboy 11 Replies latest jw friends
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blondie
Huh?
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badboy
I believe my mum was on a urology(`water works') ward.
Does their blood policy delay recovery crowding beds that could be released for other cases?
Someone told me that one jw was a blood donor!
What is jw policy on being a blood donor ?
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blondie
w00 10/15 p. 30 Questions From Readers
When donating and transfusing blood became common in the 20th century, Jehovah?s Witnesses understood that this practice conflicted with God?s Word.
However, such collecting, storing, and transfusing of blood directly contradicts what is said in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Blood is not to be stored; it is to be poured out?returned to God, as it were. Granted, the Mosaic Law is not in force now. Nevertheless, Jehovah?s Witnesses respect the principles God included in it, and they are determined to ?abstain from blood.? Hence, we do not donate blood, nor do we store for transfusion our blood that should be ?poured out.? That practice conflicts with God?s law.
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badboy
Interesting that this person is donating blood, when it is against their beliefs.
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Scully
Blood loss can cause anemia, which in many cases causes a person to appear pale.
A delay in discharge from hospital would not necessarily result from refusing a blood transfusion; patients can be sent home on medications to help build up their blood.
It may be all in how a person justifies it: a JW can get permission to donate blood if they specify that they wish their blood to be used for fractionated blood products only. Whether the Red Cross (or the agency responsible for collecting blood donations) will actually do as you specify is another story. Remember how the WTS says in their Public Talk? about Conducting Yourselves Honestly in All Things, they say that a JW has to pay ALL of their owed taxes to Caesar, even though Caesar uses part of the money to pay for military expenses, and how "unreasonable" it would be to withhold taxes on that basis or try to dictate to Caesar what to do with the taxes they are paying.
Love, Scully
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Celtic
Pardon me, maybe I'm getting the wrong end of the stick here, but at the end of the day, people are entitled to make their own free choices when it comes to medical care and the options open to them. Why would they be taking up bed spaces which could be released for other patients when they as citizens too are perfectly entitled to having a bed due to their illness, maybe I read you wrong, but i could not understand your comment on this.
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badboy
Would the blood transfusion help them to recover more quickly?
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Balsam
Blood transfusions are not a medical treatment used for every illness. Bad Boy you seem to have some confusion as to what blood transfusions can and can not do.
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badboy
I n this case, I understand it helps you to recover.