Sacrifice: The Altar of Obedience: Jehovah's Witnesses and Blood Transfusions by Rodriguez Daniel

Author:Rodriguez, Daniel [Rodriguez, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daniel Rodriguez
Published: 2016-05-16T16:00:00+00:00

​ Whole blood is rarely used for a blood transfusion, even when a blood transfusion is needed to treat blood loss. Usually, only certain components of blood are used to treat blood loss. [71] That being the case, what is the Watchtower Society’s policy regarding transfused blood fractions?

​ In 1958, the Watchtower allowed the use of blood fractions to be transfused.

Are we to consider the injection of serums such as diphtheria

toxin antitoxin and blood fractions such as gamma globulin into

the blood stream, for the purpose of building up resistance to

disease by means of antibodies, the same as the drinking of blood

or the taking of blood or blood plasma by means of transfusion?

—N. P., United States.

No , it does not seem necessary that we put the two in the same

category, although we have done so in times past. [72]

In 1961, the Watchtower’s position once again . . . changed.

Is God’s law violated by such medical use of blood?

Is it wrong to sustain life by infusions of blood or plasma

or red cells or the various blood fractions? Yes! [73]

Then in 1990 and in 2000, the Watchtower completely dropped the restriction of transfusion blood fractions leaving it to the individual conscience of their Witnesses.

​ Others have felt that a serum (antitoxin), such as immune

globulin, containing only a tiny fraction of a donor’s blood

plasma and used to bolster their defense against disease,

is not the same as a life-sustaining blood transfusion. So their

consciences may not forbid them to take immune globulin or

similar fractions. [74]

​ ​ Some Christians may conclude that since blood fractions can

pass to another person in this natural setting, they could accept

a blood fraction derived from blood plasma or cells. Does the fact

that opinions and conscientious decisions may differ mean that the

issue is inconsequential? No. It is serious. Yet, there is a basic

simplicity. The above material shows that Jehovah’s Witnesses

refuse transfusions of both whole blood and its primary blood

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History of the Blood Transfusion Issue

With The Watchtower

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