The group is know as "Jehovah's Witnesses". They believe that receiving blood transfusions are the same as drinking blood, which is stickily forbidden in the old testament law and repeated in the new testament book of Acts where Gentile believers were to "they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication."

The problem comes down to whither or not transfusions are drinking blood or not.

Yes, they simply refuse blood transfusions - all other procedures they accept

Yes, Seventh-day Adventists do believe in blood transfusions. You may be confusing Seventh-day Adventists with Jehovah's Witnesses, who are an entirely separate denomination.

The Jehovah"s Witnesses. They also object to Blood Transfusions. Maybe they won"t drive trucks that have Cross-Feed valves, also!

Loyal Jehovah's Witnesses would not give or allow to be given a whole blood transfusion to the child of a Jehovah's Witness. Likewise with transfusions of four components of blood, i.e. red cells, white cells, plasma or platelets. Transfusions of further breakdowns of blood are permitted. See links below for further information.