Interesting "Blood" Thread!

by Voyager 2 Replies latest watchtower medical

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  Voyager

  Here is an (old) thread on the Blood Issue that I found interesting! I keep wondering how things are going along these issues now in 2005!

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  Scroll almost to the very bottom on this thread! http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpa/2000/00-06-14.mpa.html#20 http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpa/2000/00-06-14.mpa.html#20 Example below:

  [B] INTERNATIONAL NEWS

  [20] JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ACCEPT BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS

  Jehovah's Witnesses will from now on accept blood transfusions in life threatening cases, thereby overturning the denomination's former negative stance on the procedure, without facing excommunication.

  According to the New York Times, the decision to allow blood transfusions was taken during a secret meeting of the religious community's 12 governing members who characterized the change as a "slight adjustment".

  The decision follows decades of adverse publicity about adults and children who have died or came close to death because the life-saving blood transfusion was forbidden by their faith.

  One case in point came to last week when a Jehovah's Witness who had lost five pints of blood in a machete attack, renounced his faith just before he lost consciousness so that he could accept a blood transfusion.

  [21] THE JEHOVAH WITNESSES CONSENT TO BLOOD TRANSFUSION

  The Jehovah Witnesses with a decision marking a 180 degrees change in the policy they were following until now allow the blood transfusions in life threatening situations without risking to be excommunicated.

  The decision in question was taken in a secret meeting of the New York based 12member world administrative council of the Jehovah Witnesses and was characterized as a "small adjustment" that comes after decades of strong criticism made by the international mass media and many humanitarian organizations regarding the cases of children who were led to death or got very close to dying because of the blood transfusion ban.

  However, the Jehovah Witnesses spokesman in Britain stated that the rejection of blood transfusion is still a "fundamental value" for them.
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  crazyblondeb

  All I know is that in 2004 I had a JW child with luekemia who HAD to have blood to save her. Of course the elders were there trying to look like someone in authority. They gave the young couple a very hard time with all the "trust in Jehovah", "the Armegeddon will soon be here", "in Paradise she will be healed", ---and all the CRAP. They were threatened with JC proceedings and everything else they could throw at them. After speaking with the doctor, it took the legal department 3 hours for the hospital to get guardianship, and allow the blood.

  I had the priviledgeof having the elders escorted out by security. Look on their face was priceless. Later the mother thanked me. Of course, the elders tried to get me and the doctor in trouble. But my supervisor wasn't about to take any shit from them. She had them trespassed from the hospital! It felt sssoooo good to have them put back in their place!!

  shelley
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  Voyager

  Shelly:

  elders escorted out by security.

  Thank you for your reply! I would have (loved) to have been there to see that! They have (no) right to intrude on a person during such a serious time.

  Thanks!