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  My Story

  by Lee Elder in

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  this is the first of a multi-part article that tells my story, and how ajwrb got started.. https://www.openmindsfoundation.org/saving-thousand-lives-year-reform-watchtowers-policy-blood-transfusions-part-one/.

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  Hi JP,

  Reforms have occurred in the past, and they will continue to occur in the future. The kind of reform we can most easily facilitate is reform among the individual members of the organization, by helping them to see the policy for what it really is. We have done a great deal of that. We can also "reform" the way physicians think about this issue, and how they approach their JW patients. We have had a fair amount of success in that arena as well. Reform of the WT is very slow, and difficult. While we have had some success on that front, its limited. Its going to take action from governments to force WT's hand I'm afraid. We can have some success there as well. However, that too is going to be slow and difficult. I think the effort is worthwhile.
  
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  My Story

  by Lee Elder in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  this is the first of a multi-part article that tells my story, and how ajwrb got started.. https://www.openmindsfoundation.org/saving-thousand-lives-year-reform-watchtowers-policy-blood-transfusions-part-one/.

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  Lee Elder

  This is the first of a multi-part article that tells my story, and how AJWRB got started.

  https://www.openmindsfoundation.org/saving-thousand-lives-year-reform-watchtowers-policy-blood-transfusions-part-one/
  
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  The Watchtower's Medical Expert

  by Lee Elder in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  a new article by s. sparrow, published today at ajwrb, investigates dr. joachim boldt, one of the watchtower's “bloodless medicine” experts.

  a notorious “medical pretender” who has exposed jw's to additional needless risk.

  watchtower continues to cite this source, and fails to expose him as a fraud.

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  Lee Elder

  Orphan Crow wrote the article. She's taking a little break from the internet.
  
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  The Watchtower's Medical Expert

  by Lee Elder in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  a new article by s. sparrow, published today at ajwrb, investigates dr. joachim boldt, one of the watchtower's “bloodless medicine” experts.

  a notorious “medical pretender” who has exposed jw's to additional needless risk.

  watchtower continues to cite this source, and fails to expose him as a fraud.

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  Lee Elder

  A new article by S. Sparrow, published today at AJWRB, investigates Dr. Joachim Boldt, one of the Watchtower's “bloodless medicine” experts. A notorious “medical pretender” who has exposed JW's to additional needless risk. Watchtower continues to cite this source, and fails to expose him as a fraud. In the process, they leave more than eight million people exposed to bad medical advice.

  http://ajwrb.org/the-watchtowers-medical-expert
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  Blood Transfusions are Biblically Supported

  by allpoweredup in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  to jehovah's witnesses elders: blood transfusions are biblically supported: acts 15:20 says abstain from blood but 1 samuel 14:32-5 says saul's army ate unbled meat to not starve and no verses show god not forgiving them.

  christ says god also forgave david's eating temple holy bread to survive and that god wants mercy not sacrifice.

  (mt 12) the may 22, 1994 awake tells of 26 jehovah's witness kids who died without transfusions, and by common sense in massive bleeding as in car wrecks blood expanders won't save lives http://www.ajwrb.org.

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  Chook- Brilliant questions and intervention. Cheers!
  
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  Blood Transfusions are Biblically Supported

  by allpoweredup in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  to jehovah's witnesses elders: blood transfusions are biblically supported: acts 15:20 says abstain from blood but 1 samuel 14:32-5 says saul's army ate unbled meat to not starve and no verses show god not forgiving them.

  christ says god also forgave david's eating temple holy bread to survive and that god wants mercy not sacrifice.

  (mt 12) the may 22, 1994 awake tells of 26 jehovah's witness kids who died without transfusions, and by common sense in massive bleeding as in car wrecks blood expanders won't save lives http://www.ajwrb.org.

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  In every case the Biblical context either states or implies that the prohibition is against the eating of blood. Eating allows the blood to be digested and used by the body as food. A blood transfusion is not "eating blood". No digestion takes place. Doctors do no prescribe blood products to treat malnutrition or hunger. End of conversation.
  
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  Watchtower Coercion of Non-JWs

  by Lee Elder in

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  it is widely known that the watchtower coerces compliance with its deadly blood dogma.

  a less known fact is that this pressure is further extended to non-believing family members of jw's.

  a new story at ajwrb recounts how jw elders nearly cost the life of one unbeliever when he fell gravely anemic.

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  Thank you "Under the Radar" for another example of this pernicious aspect of the WT blood doctrine.
  
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  Watchtower Coercion of Non-JWs

  by Lee Elder in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  it is widely known that the watchtower coerces compliance with its deadly blood dogma.

  a less known fact is that this pressure is further extended to non-believing family members of jw's.

  a new story at ajwrb recounts how jw elders nearly cost the life of one unbeliever when he fell gravely anemic.

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  Sparrowdown: Please post your story in the comment section of the story at AJWRB so it doesn't get lost to time. Thanks.
  
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  Watchtower Coercion of Non-JWs

  by Lee Elder in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  it is widely known that the watchtower coerces compliance with its deadly blood dogma.

  a less known fact is that this pressure is further extended to non-believing family members of jw's.

  a new story at ajwrb recounts how jw elders nearly cost the life of one unbeliever when he fell gravely anemic.

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  Sparrowdown: This speaks to the blood phobias instilled in JWs by Watchtower. Clearly, they know a non-JW is under no restriction from using blood. Now perhaps someone would argue that the restriction applies to all because of the Noachian covenant. I would call nonsense on that because that is strictly a Watchtower interpretation that is universally rejected by Christian and Jewish scholars.
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  New Research at AJWRB

  by Lee Elder in

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  the latest research article published at ajwrb estimates the number of jehovah's witnesses who have died from following or being coerced to follow watchtower's blood policy.

  the numbers are staggering.

  http://ajwrb.org/jehovahs-witnesses-and-blood-tens-of-thousands-dead-in-hidden-tragedy.

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  Lee Elder

  Ruby 456. You wrote:

  "the problem is that the poster and you Lee elder are not addressing why this study was done and why it appears in later journals. the study was done in order to know and manage risks amongst JW patients who become anaemic to improve outcomes and this is one of the things which you are not allowing for in your so called conservative estimates and it is this that makes your estimates sensationalist".

  This is patently false. You have either not read the original research by Beliaev in July 2012 VoxSanginis, or you are being intentionally dishonest. The research was undertaken to assess the clinical benefit and cost-effectiveness of ARBC transfusion in severe anemia. In order to do this the researchers did the only thing they could do, compare costs and outcomes with patients who accept ARBC transfusion with costs and outcomes with a matched set of patients who refuse ARBC transfusion.
  
  Beliaev et als research demonstrated that ARBC transfusion in anaemic patients is clinically beneficial and cost-effective. On this point the outcome of JW patients suffering severe anemia who refused ARBC transfusion, compared to patients who were treated with ARBC transfusion resoundingly demonstrated that ARBC transfusion to treat patients with severe anemia is extremely effective, not to mention its cost effectiveness.

  I have attached a scan of the front page of the article. It is not available for free online, only the abstract.

  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22150804

  Please move your mind to another subject. I am too busy with important work to continually have to correct your mistakes..