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How can a Jehovah witnesses accept secondary blood fractions if blood giving is prohibited?
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∙ 12y ago
Hi I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses and would like to try to answer your question for you. We follow the scripture at Acts 15:29 that states "keep abstaining from blood" and therefore do not accept blood transfusions. However there are many other things doctors can do without giving you a blood transfusion to save your life. Today, most transfusions are not of whole blood but of one of its primary components :(1) red blood cells; (2) white cells; (3) platelets; (4) plasma (serum), the fluid part. Depending on the condition of the patient, physicians might prescribe red cells, white cells, platelets, or plasma. Jehovah's witnesses hold that accepting whole blood or any of those four primary components violates God's law. There are many non-witnesses doctors today that see the health benefits of surgery without using blood. In fact many complicated surgeries such as heart and liver transplants can now be done without blood transfusions. I live in southern California and there are several hospitals around here that are bloodless hospitals, meaning they operate without giving blood transfusions. Some alternatives to blood transfusions that are available are volume expanders such as dextran, saline solution, Ringer's lactate solution, and hetastarch. These are used to build up or conserve your own blood, to aviod or minimize blood loss, to replace circulatory volume, or to stop bleeding. There are fractions derived from components of blood that some might choose to accept. Also there are procedures such as cell salvage that re-routes your blood during surgery so you do not lose any blood but acts as an extention of your body. So it is as if the blood never left your body. We value life very much and know that there are many things that can be done to save a life or perform a surgery without the use of blood. Therefore it is up to each own person to decide on their medical care and what blood transfusion alternatives they are willing to accept.
ANSWER FROM ONE OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES...
As we know and can see from the Book of ACTS 15:28-29 we are to abstain from Blood. Now to abstain means to stop doing, not to do some thing at all. With this in mind I follow this law to the letter, I do not accept whole Blood, any of the fraction parts that you can get from it, any medication that is derived from or contains any Blood or Blood product.
The use of fractions is a personal one that only the individual can decide to use or not.
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