Jehovah’s Witnesses ease policy on transfusions, allowing storage and use of one’s own blood
*Jehovah’s Witnesses announced members may now store and use their own blood for surgery, marking the first significant shift in the religion’s 75-year transfusion prohibition.
*The organization maintains its ban on receiving transfusions of others’ blood, a prohibition that ex-members say has led to preventable deaths.
*Critics argue the policy change falls short, as members who accept donor blood in medical emergencies could face shunning from the faith community.
Leaders of Jehovah’s Witnesses are modifying their prohibition on receiving blood transfusions on religious grounds, now allowing members to decide whether to allow their own blood to be drawn and stored in advance for such things as a scheduled surgery with a risk of significant blood loss.
But the organization is retaining its wider prohibition against receiving transfusions of others’ blood — a procedure routinely used with patients after accidents, violence or other blood loss. This long-held prohibition is one of the most distinctive and controversial teachings of the movement, which is headquartered in New York state and well-known for its assertive public proselytizing.
The Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses announced what it called a “clarification” of its teaching on Friday, saying it came after extensive prayer and consideration.
“Each Christian must decide for himself how his own blood will be used in all medical and surgical care,” Governing Body member Gerrit Lösch said in a video statement posted Friday on the denomination’s website.
“This includes whether to allow his own blood to be removed, stored, and then given back to him. What does this mean? Some Christians may decide that they would allow their blood to be stored and then be given back to them, others may object.”
After decades of martyr, public backslash and high mortality among members of named sect. Jehovah’s Witnesses conscience or lifestyle directors (Governing body) has finally agreed to let there members accept blood transfusions at point of death.
Although this new update comes with conditions. Blood transfusions is still blood transfusions, whether is your blood, relatives blood or a strangers blood. Will they apologise for thousand of faithful adherents who preferred to die than save there lives medically? No
They’ve never apologised for deceiving anyone rather they’ll blame staunch members for doing too much…
Religion!!
Watch video
https://www.jw.org/finder?srcid=share&wtlocale=E&lank=docid-1112024049_1_VIDEO
