TD, does the transfused blood nourish the body in any manner at all within any definition of the word nourishment ?
If I remmember one of your arguments, you also pointed out that "keep abstaining" -absent the verb - should only refer to how and the same as they were abstaining before the decree. Albeit I am still not convinced that a person pumping a gallon and a half of blood into his body is abstaining within any definition of the word "keep abstaining" from blood.
The transfused blood is inside a person's body and the body has no choice but to metabolize it, extract and benefit from its nutrients such as iron and other nutrients in the transfused blood.
It seems that eating something or injecting the same food substance into the body, like blood for example, is very similar. Eating a human kidney vs transplanting one is not the same; The blood is eaten by the body but a transplanted organ is not.
Just expressing what seems logical. What do you think?