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  JW's and blood transfusions

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  i am not a jw.

  in a paper that i'm writing, i use an example of an adult jw who refuses to consent to a blood transfusion.

  what do jw's believe?

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  danny49

  I am not a JW. In a paper that I'm writing, I use an example of an adult JW who refuses to consent to a blood transfusion. I claimed that if the courts/doctors ignored the JW's wishes and gave him the transfusion anyway, no JW would say that this JW had sinned or that he would suffer any spiritually adverse consequences. The referees of the journal I sent my paper to claimed that I had misunderstood JW theology and many JW's would fear damnation if given a blood transfusion involuntarily. Are they right? What do JW's believe? Do they think that God would "hold it against me" if I were given a blood transfusion involuntarily? Don't JW's believe that sin has to be voluntary? So it's a sin to agree to have a blood transfusion, but not a sin to be forced to have one-- just as it's a sin to fornicate, but not a sin to be raped? Does anyone know of any "official" JW publications that address this question. I've checked the Watchtower web site and found nothing that touches on this specific question.