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Do Seventh-day Adventists believe in blood transfusions?
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.
What is the significance of having a universal blood type like O in terms of blood donation and transfusions?
Having a universal blood type like O is significant for blood donation and transfusions because it can be given to patients with any blood type during emergencies when there is no time to determine the recipient's blood type. This makes O blood crucial in saving lives and ensuring that patients receive the necessary transfusions without delay.
Can a woman with blood group O have a child with a man having blood group A?
It does not matter what blood type either of you have. It only matters in blood transfusions.
Which religions disapprove of certain medical procedures?
Many religions oppose abortions, because they believe it is murder. The Jehovah's Witnesses oppose blood transfusions because they believe that God prohibits the eating of blood. Catholics oppose euthanasia, because they believe it is murder. Catholics also oppose in vitro fertilization, sterilization, most forms of birth control, and artificial insemination. Christian Scientists oppose many medical practices. Scientologists oppose pharmaceutical psychiatry.
When is a person at risk of HIV?
* Having unprotected sex * Blood transfusions * When a baby is in mother's womb
Will Hindus have blood transfusions?
In medicine, women prefer to have a woman overseeing their medical care, and men prefer male doctors. There are no religious objections to blood transfusions, however Hindu people believe in reincarnation with a cause and effect relationship.
Do Jehovah's witnesses believe in hospitals?
Yes, they simply refuse blood transfusions - all other procedures they accept
What year did blood transfusions become safe?
Nowadays blood is screened for illnesses before it is used in transfusions.
Are there pros to having type A blood?
There are no special benefits to having one particular blood type. The only possible advantage to having a specific blood type is the fact that it may be more common, so, transfusions and such will be much easier to come by.
Why is the transmission of HIV by blood transfusions now very rare?
Because blood is screened and sterilized before transfusions.
Which group does not allow blood transfusions because they believe that taking blood into the body is morally wrong?
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.
What do dominican's believe about blood transfusions?
The Dominicans are a Catholic religious order. The Catholic church takes no position against Blood transfusions as a normal medical practice. The Jehovah"s Witnesses and Christian Science ( two separate faiths) are OPPOSED to blood transfusions- and a good deal else! I have never even seen questions about Blood Transfusions in any Catholic religious q and a columns- including those on the internet such as Catholic Answers. no red light. Pun intended) on the cross- feed valves
