My suggestion:
Send her an article on blood transfusions and ask her to explain the contradictions and faulty logic in the WT stand. Also there are threads on this site that will help. Also check out JWfacts.com for a fuller treatment of the subject.
She naturally will consult with her teacher who will demonstrate some eye-opening frustration.
Contrary to WTS teaching, the Bible does not prohibit blood transfusions. Witnesses like to say that transfusions are the same thing as eating blood. They often use the analogy of drinking alcohol and transfusions alcohol directly into the veins to support this idea. Would your doctor who had told you to abstain from drinking alcohol be upset if you had alcohol injected into your bloodstream. Why yes of course. But the analogy falls apart when you ask….Would your doctor, who had instructed you to abstain from meat be upset if you had a liver transplant? No because that life saving transplant would not be disobeying his instruction.
Moreover a blood transfusion is also an organ transplant. You may remember that the Watchtower outlawed all organ transplants from 1967 to 1980 when Jehovah apparently changed his mind on the subject. How many people suffered or died from obeying the Watchtower's medical quackery. What the Watchtower still does not want people to know is that with every major organ transplant billions of white blood cells are passed from donor to recipient. There are 12 times the number of white blood cells found in organs than in the bloodstream. Interestingly millions of white blood cells pass from mother to child when breastfeeding. Apparently Jehovah does not operate by the same rules as Jehovah's Witnesses.
Here are some questions and arguments I put together.
Blood
Questions Basic
Where
does the Bible outlaw Blood Transfusions? (Acts 15:29)
Why do you think aren't Orthodox Jews bothered by transfusions?
Could
it be that the dietary laws in Acts 15 were temporary,
designed to help unify Jews and Gentiles.
a.
Which components of blood are acceptable and which ones are not?
What is the scriptural basis for this distinction? (red cells, white
cells, platelets, plasma are all banned)
b.
Why plasma? Why is plasma (55% of blood volume) unacceptable when
all of its elements are on the WTS acceptable list? Plasma is made up
of 92 % water, albumin and fibrinogen proteins. What's the problem? It's like saying you can eat bread, cheese, mayo separately, but you can't eat a cheese sandwich.
c.
Why white blood cells? Why are white blood cells banned when 97
percent of the white cells are not found in the blood stream but in
organ tissues that are permitted by the WTS to transplant? Of course
billions are transferred with every major transplant. By the way,12
times more white blood cells are found in a mother's milk than in the
blood. Millions are passed from mother to child at every
feeding. Seems Jehovah doesn't abide by the same rules JWs do.
d.
Why is it sinful to store whole blood? Where is the biblical
exception that allows JWs to have their blood stored in tubes for
lab technicians to test? By the way, only blood of animals that were
slain by Jews under the law was to be poured out. No one was
slain/killed to acquire the blood stored in blood banks. (Lev.17:13)
e.
Why is it alright to use the life-saving fractions (eg. Factors VIII
and IX) derived from the donated and stored blood of others when
these products were stored immorally? And aren't hemophiliac
Witnesses leeches when they take these blood products without
contributing to the blood bank themselves?
f.
Where is the rule found that it is OK to remove blood from the
body to be cleaned..as long as there is no interruption in
it's flow back to the body?
g.
Why did it take JWs over 70 years to find these rules out when
they are so obvious to JWs now. And didn't Jesus appoint the Faithful Slave in 1919 when JWs were still being encouraged to work for the Red
Cross as alternative service and give and receive transfusions when
necessary?
.
Now
regarding the actual eating of blood:
h.
Can anything that goes into the mouth of a Christian defile him?
Ro.14:14, Mk 7:15
i.
Assuming that there is no one around with a weak conscience,
should Christians ask questions of conscience about meat served in
the home of a pagan idol worshiper who is known to eat
things strangled? I Cor.10:27
j.
Why do you think Jews could eat animals found dead in their
fields (unbled) with relative impunity. They would merely have to
wash their clothes and be unclean until evening.
Leviticus
11:38,39
- "If
an animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches its
carcass will be unclean till evening. Anyone who eats some of its
carcass must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till
evening. Anyone who picks up the carcass must wash their clothes, and
they will be unclean till evening." Also
Leviticus17:14,15
