I received the following information, in a PM, from a JWN member as a follow-up to my post above. By request his/her user name is withheld. Thank you for the information!
you said:
(It really is the same thing, since hemoglobin is 97% of red blood cells, but the WTS calls it a fraction, making it ok for Witnesses to take.)
yes you are correct, but you are forgetting that the same insert also allows "Hemin" which it states as "less than 2% of red blood cells"
well if you add up 97% and 1.75% (for Hemin) you are now broaching 99% of red blood cells as a conscience matter.
I used this ridiculous wording as a way to get my naive JW family to "allow" red blood cells.
I had the dr. write up the consent form to allow "packaged hemoglobin". He even laughed that if the lab saw this they would have no idea what he meant.
Hemoglobin outside of red blood cells are basically waste product the body disposes of (billyruben for example)
If there was one component of blood that DEFINED blood it would be Hemoglobin - hospitals speak of Hemoglobin and RBC analogously.
The WTS allows virtually 99% of the red blood cell as hemoglobin but draws the line at the membrane that holds it hemoglobin together, which is made of fat and cholesterol!
Think about this...... the bloodiest part of blood (hemoglobin) is acceptable, but a sack made of fat and cholesterol is NOT ALLOWED!
99% of RBC - Allowed (hemoglobin)
1% - NOT allowed (cholesterol)
I consider 1% a "fraction" far more than 99%
can you see the absurdity?? On top of this the WT June 15, 2004 QFR's states that "any fraction" of the 4 main components is acceptable.
Is the 1% membrane of the RBC a fraction? Absolutely! on its own that 1% is acceptable, on it's own the 99% hemo is acceptable. Just don't take them together!!!
My Dr. literally laughed at the writing but totally understood where I was coming from. He looked me in the eye and said - "so we just need to word this right and play their same game of semantics"
EXACTLY!! And we wrote up a consent for that my whole family of JW's was happy with when in the end it was allowing red blood cells. MY FAMILY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW! They were proud they upheld Jehovah's law on blood.
And this Dr. had been involved in court cases with the HLC before and asked for copies of the articles I showed him.
I felt like a super hero after that.
You can post my PM if you like but do not refer to my user name as I am keeping low key on this site due to some JW spies keeping tabs on me.
I just thought you'd appreciate the points above
peace out...
I enjoyed reading this member's information. These parts are memorable to me...
"the bloodiest part of blood (hemoglobin) is acceptable..." That is well put.
"...you are now broaching 99% of red blood cells as a conscience matter."
"Is the 1% membrane of the RBC a fraction? Absolutely! on its own that 1% is acceptable, on it's own the 99% hemo is acceptable. Just don't take them together!!!"
"My Dr. [said] - "so we just need to word this right and play their same game of semantics""
"my whole family of JW's was happy with when in the end it was allowing red blood cells. MY FAMILY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW!"