Jehovah's Witnesses, Blood Fractions, and Storing Blood

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  • As an inactive JW with iron overload, the doctor won't perform blood letings becaus they are overstretched, the Watchtower doesn't want me to go to the blood bank and donate blood, even though I'd choose the "Don't use my blood" option at the end of the questionnaire. Some lucky JW's with iron overload may have more comprehensive doctors and perform blood letings, but not in my small town. So, I'm a Watchtower blood policy victim. You heard this from a real JW.

  • @HUMBUMTEL There are three treatments used to chelate iron from the blood of those suffering your condition: Deferoxamine, deferasirox, and deferiprone. If you don't want to face DFing, thus losing your family and friends, you may wish to investigate those treatments; either that, or walk right out, telling them to stick it the way I did. =)

  • transfusion of blood= the donating of blood to give to other people. JW's can use their own blood, have it filtered and have it put back to them. its in that weird card looking thing they get. its not just ''worldly people'' that they dont accept blood on, they wouldnt even accept blood from their very own people. to them blood is sacred and should be personal. so they can have their blood taken and filtered, just not shared with other people.

  • @l0st4ndc0nfused Apparently you are not paying attention. The Witnesses DO accept blood from worldly people - in the form of fractions. They do not donate to the supply of fractions however. You keep dodging the facts the way you've been programmed to.

  • Did you read Flock Book 2010 on blood? U could prob get a vid out of that alone.

    Absolutely blood is blood; blood fractions is blood. This fraction thing came out after I was long out of the WT. It was so goofy I didn't believe it.

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    Flock Book 2010 also relates to this Bulgaria situation. The WTS swore to the Bulgarian government they had no religious sanction against member who accepted blood. FB2010 says there is. Check it out under the disfellowshipping-disassociati­on section.

  • @anissueofursincerity I didn't read that. I'm in algebra right now. That's got me busy.

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  • I love your very "logical" video clip. I'm an inactive JW, and I have iron overload, and the Watchtower doesn't want me to donate blood in order to lower my iron overload. And the blood doctor I see won't perform blood lettings at the hospital but wants me to donate blood at a blood bank. I told the doctor I'm not allowed. So either way I'm screwed thanks to the illogical Watchtower policy on blood

  • So they wont have their own blood spun into its base components, nor store their own blood in any state of composition. They will however take average joes blood in it component parts.

    Trouble is the old ladies who push this utter nonsense around where I live are about as bright as a dark room, I feal mean telling them to pissoff. I just take the copy of watchtower and use it to pick my dogs shit up after it has had a crap in the local dog walking area.

    A great use for such rammel I find.

  • others have already said it, but im gonna say it too. it is hipocritical to allow J.W.'s to accept a fraction but not to allow them to donate blood. if the whole world were J.W.'s, then there would be no way for them to get fractions.

  • baby killers (RH-)

  • i've always wondered why a witness cannot store their own blood for future use. i cannot find anything wrong with it. it can't be any worse than getting big bottles of albumin injected into you. at least its your own blood. if nothing else, the watchtower should declare it a concience matter.

  • @l0st4ndc0nfused you forgot to mention that the blood has to be kept in circuit. it cannot be stored for future use. this issue came up when my dad was in the hospital. dr's wanted to take a little blood out and mix it with radioactive die and reinject. it was at this point i started to say, 'if the watchtower says 'conscience', that means you can do it. we shouldn't have to beat ourselves up over the letter of the law.

  • So they aren't allowed to contribute to the blood supply, yet they are completely free to pick and choose out of it at will LOL@ that

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