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  Survey on rejecting blood and deaths

  by Mrs Smith in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  has there ever been a survey done on how many jw's die because of the blood issue?

  i was just thinking that if a world wide survey could be done it would make people realise just how dangerous this religion is.

  i remember reading somewhere that about 1% die because of refusing blood.

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  Sam Beli

  Perhaps you are referring to this editorial: http://www.ajwrb.org/science/risks1.shtml
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  Deaths Due to Watchtower Blood Doctrine - Statistic on one patient populat

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  2. medical

  deaths due to watchtower blood doctrine - statistics on one patient population.

  to date there is no vetted study of records offering estimates of overall mortality and morbidity attributable to the wts blood doctrine.

  vetted literature frequently expresses adherence to the wts blood doctrine as causing premature death and/or disease, but the question of overall mortality and morbidity is very complex and, so far, unaddressed statistically.

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  Sam Beli

  bttt...this is too important to be lost.
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  Deaths Due to Watchtower Blood Doctrine - Statistic on one patient populat

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  deaths due to watchtower blood doctrine - statistics on one patient population.

  to date there is no vetted study of records offering estimates of overall mortality and morbidity attributable to the wts blood doctrine.

  vetted literature frequently expresses adherence to the wts blood doctrine as causing premature death and/or disease, but the question of overall mortality and morbidity is very complex and, so far, unaddressed statistically.

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  Sam Beli

  Thank you for this information, Marvin.

  Kind Regards,

  Sam
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  Why Entertainment Got Banned in the Watchtower

  by WTWizard in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is a thread with the resolution that, among other things, effectively banned entertainment, putting it in the same league as porn and drunkenness.

  but why would they ban entertainment?

  for sure it can't all be dirty!.

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  Sam Beli

  60 years ago when TV was getting off the ground, assembly speakers railed againt it too as a time waster.
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  Pulmonary embolism

  by Insomniac in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i just found out through the grapevine that my brother had a pulmonary embolism (blood clot went into his lung and almost killed him) a couple of weeks ago.

  he's ok now, and the doc has him on blood thinners, which he'll need for the rest of his life, to keep it from happening again.

  it's pretty amazing that he survived, as these things are usually only diagnosed during autopsies, it's not too often people survive them.

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  Sam Beli

  During the initial and acute phase of pulmonary embolism you want to be cared for by a pulmonary (chest - lung) physician. They are by far the best trained specialists to take care of this condition.
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  US SUPREME COURT RULED AGAINST PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTIONS

  by juni in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  and i say thank god that this abhorrent practice is not legal any longer.. i don't feel rowe vs. wade (the right of a women to an abortion) should be banned, but definitely partial birth abortions should be.. am i for willy nilly abortion?

  but if there were ever a situation say a woman's health was in jeapordy i feel she should have the right to a legal ending of her pregnancy.. for those that choose abortion as a means of birth control or some other lame reason, i believe that is wrong.. how do you feel?.

  juni .

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  Sam Beli

  Over one million abortions are performed each year in the United States. One reason
  the majority in the Supreme Court upheld the 2003 act by congress was the failure of
  pro-abortion groups to demonstrate any appreciable threat to the mother’s life that is
  avoided by the now banned barbaric procedure.

  “Abortion opponents say the law will not reduce the number of abortions performed
  because an alternate method — dismembering the fetus in the uterus — is available
  and, indeed, much more common.”

  BlackSwan, do you also object to court intervention in cases where parents decide to
  withhold blood from their dying child?
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  Bill Cosby's moral authority....

  by UnConfused in

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  http://www.cnsnews.com/viewspecialreports.asp?page=/specialreports/archive/200407/spe20040702a.html.

  by marc morano.

  cnsnews.com senior staff writer.

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  Sam Beli

  He has a B.A., a M.A. and a Ph.D. http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/billcosby/p/bio_cosby_b.htm
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  Doctors Should Not Be Forced To Artificially Inseminate Lesbians

  by Sam Beli in

  1. social
  2. current

  ann arbor, mi the thomas more law center, a national public interest law firm based .

  in ann arbor, michigan, has submitted a friend of the court brief supporting the right of .

  physicians to refuse to perform medical procedures that violate their sincerely held religious .

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  Sam Beli

  Rowan, thank you for your reasoned reply.

  Sam
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  Doctors Should Not Be Forced To Artificially Inseminate Lesbians

  by Sam Beli in

  1. social
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  ann arbor, mi the thomas more law center, a national public interest law firm based .

  in ann arbor, michigan, has submitted a friend of the court brief supporting the right of .

  physicians to refuse to perform medical procedures that violate their sincerely held religious .

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  Sam Beli

  ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based
  in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has submitted a friend of the court brief supporting the right of
  physicians to refuse to perform medical procedures that violate their sincerely held religious
  convictions. The brief was filed in a case pending before the California Supreme Court,
  North Coast Women’s Care v. Benitiz.

  In that case Guadalupe Benitez, a lesbian, sued two doctors who refused to artificially
  inseminate her—alleging that the doctors discriminated against her because of her
  sexual orientation in violation of California’s civil rights act. The doctors assert that
  they cannot be held liable for refusing to provide treatment based upon their sincerely
  held religious convictions because California’s constitution protects their right to the
  free exercise of religion. Benitez is represented by the LAMBDA Legal Defense Fund,
  one of the leading organizations promoting the homosexual agenda.

  According to Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel for the Thomas More Law
  Center, “Forcing doctors to violate their conscience smacks of Nazi Germany. Doctors are
  not ‘needles for hire.’ Benitez received treatment from other doctors. Her effort to punish
  these doctors is a mean-spirited effort to exact a pound of flesh from those who refuse to
  bow to the homosexual agenda based on sincerely held religious conviction.”

  Patrick T. Gillen, the attorney who authored the brief for the Law Center, observed that the
  case has broad implications for religious liberty. He noted, “if the California Supreme Court
  accepts Bentiz’s argument, the protection that California’s constitution provides to the free
  exercise of religion will be practically meaningless. The California Supreme Court should
  hold that California’s religious liberty provision bars Benitez from holding these doctors
  liable for their refusal to provide medical care based upon their sincerely held religious convictions.”
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  Scientists Rejuvenate Hearts

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070326/ts_alt_afp/ushealthheartstemcell;_ylt=ajn6_kewtilitwvhyvhk82iplbif.

  two trials show progress in rejuvenating human hearts with stem cells.. .

  if tehy can master stem cells, the possibilities are enormous, maybe even a sort of functional .

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  Sam Beli

  Good news, and it was all done without embryonic stem cells.