Will jehovah witnesses use their own blood for blood transfusions?

Answer 1

No. According to an Official Statement issued to the Media on Blood Transfusions (June 15, 2000) :

"An article published in the June 14, 2000, issue of a British newspaper has incorrectly publicized what it feels to be a major change in the religious doctrine of Jehovah's Witnesses regarding blood transfusions. In order to correct the misinformation, Jehovah's Witnesses are providing the following statement. [...] If one of Jehovah's Witnesses accepts a blood transfusion in a moment of weakness and then later regrets the action, this would be considered a serious matter. Spiritual assistance would be offered to help the person regain spiritual strength. This position has not changed.

If a baptized member of the faith willfully and without regret accepts blood transfusions, he indicates by his own actions that he no longer wishes to be one of Jehovah's Witnesses. The individual revokes his own membership by his own actions, rather than the congregation initiating this step. This represents a procedural change instituted in April 2000 in which the congregation no longer initiates the action to revoke membership in such cases. However, the end result is the same; the individual is no longer viewed as one of Jehovah's Witnesses because he no longer accepts and follows a core tenet of the faith. However, if such an individual later changes his mind, he may be accepted back as one of Jehovah's Witnesses. This position has not changed. [...]"

It depends on the definition of 'blood'.

If you mean whole blood then = no.

If you split blood into red cells =no

If you split blood into white cells = no

If you split blood into platelets = no

If you split blood into plasma = no

If you split blood any further = yes

For example although haemoglobin is 97 % of the dry weight of red cells haemoglobin transfusions are allowed whilst the whole red cell is not.

Answer 2

It would depend on the individual and what their conscience allows.

Modern advancements in medicine have certainly made it easier for Jehovah's Witnesses to research options to whole blood transfusions.

Doing bloodless surgery is the ideal option, and more doctors and hospitals are seeing the benefits of doing bloodless surgery.

Most hospitals in the US have a department that works with Jehovah's Witnesses on alternatives to blood transfusions. Additionally, if you visit the official website on Jehovah's Witnesses (see jw.org), you can search their publications and see what they can or cannot accept.

Answer 3

I am not sure why this question was ask, also I hope my answer will be encouraging as well.

First! Let's answer the question about how does Jehovah view "Blood"? Let's read

Leviticus 3:17 here Jehovah commanded the Israelites not to eat any blood at all, also chapter 17:14 Jehovah gave the reason, because life is in the "blood", and if reading the whole bible book of Leviticus on "blood" it will give the many reason why "blood" was use for different offering ect.

Now we should undestanding that "blood" is sacred and used for sacrificial purposes only for Jehovah use.

All true Christian of Jehovah view "blood" use the same, with the understanding of it's purpose, also we are aware of many medical procedures that have been perform without the medical use of "blood" and many healthcare professional have agreed to our stand on "no blood" with a clear conscience to Jehovah and to ourself that we have remain faithful under test of faith. Acts 15:28,29 jw.org for more info.

Answer 4

I'M NOT sure who the "The House of Yahweh" are but we do not accept blood transfusions. Our main authority is the Bibles texts by the physician Luke as stated in the Bible book of Acts:

(Acts 15:27-29) ". . .. 28 For the holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to you except these necessary things: 29 to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you. . ."

The entire Bible shows the sacredness of blood that Jehovah God & Christ Jesus have made very clear throughout its content:

When it touches on basic scientific & medical ideas it has been referenced as the following:

*** g91 11/22 p. 5 The Bible Fought Disease Before Science Did ***

"A Very Accurate Scientific Book"

Hippocrates was a Greek physician of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. who has become known as "the father of medicine," but much that The Bible says about diseases was written by Moses, about a thousand years before then. Yet, significantly, The AMA News published a letter from a doctor that said: "The best informed medical researchers now doing the best work are arriving at the conclusion that the Bible is a very accurate scientific book. . . . The facts of life, diagnosis, treatment, and preventive medicine as given in the Bible are far more advanced and reliable than the theories of Hippocrates, many still unproven, and some found to be grossly inaccurate.