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I need to ask a question that has been raised by two related news articles I’ve just read (here and here).
A young woman has died after giving birth to healthy twins when her faith as a Jehovah’s Witness forbade her from having a blood transfusion. There is some speculation that she may still have died even if she’d had it, but no-one is 100% sure. Apparently, because of this verse in the Bible, Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that blood transfusions are a sin:
“And any man from the house of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.” Leviticus 17:10
I’m sorry but I don’t see the connection; a blood transfusion is not “eating” blood. OK, you accept the blood of another into your body and maybe you can stretch the definition and call that eating, but it is a stretch. And let’s remember it is blood that has been freely given, without suffering on the part of the giver, for the greater good of all.
Maybe I could be swayed by the argument if it was just a question of semantics, or if it was just on a par with not eating fish on a Friday, but it’s not. You look at cases like this one and you have to ask: why? Why would you, as a mother-to-be, risk your life for a religious idea rather than hold to the physical certainty of the two children you’ve just given birth to? Why would your family allow you to do this? It’s obvious why the hospital allows it - they’d get sued to pieces if they intervened - but I can’t understand why, or how, the family could just stand by and let it happen. What are they going to tell that little boy and little girl as they grow up and wonder where their Mummy is?
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6 November, 2007 at 0:00
I think it’s because the theme throughout the Bible is that the Life is in the blood. I’m not sure; I am not a Jehovah’s witness, but I am a Christian who witnesses for Jehovah (Yahweh God) and the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. God Bless! Laura
27 November, 2007 at 21:00
[...] already commented on the recent case of a Jehovah’s Witness mother who died giving birth because her religion [...]
29 April, 2008 at 21:00
For me I would not take a blood transfusion and I am not
a Jehovah’s Witness, though my Grandmother is.
There is also a risk of getting another disease from a blood transfusion and a lot of people were given tainted blood,
some bringing hepatitis and aids with it.
Do you honestly know if the blood you are taking is not tainted with some disease?
Does the hospital take the time to tell you?
So there is a risk and you must decide if you want to take the risk or not. Free will for some but it is also necessary
to take risk so that we can understand the meaning of our lives when we allow the unexpected and unforseen to happen. You must decide what you will risk.
2 September, 2008 at 4:00
I believe that Laura is absolutely correct. According to the book of Genesis, After tyhe flood, Noah was given permission to eat the meat of animals.
There was a condition though.
The meat had to be drained of blood, because the life of the soul was in the blood. It is not simply a matter of eating blood by ingesting it through the mouth. By taking a transfusion of blood you are taking into your body anothers lifesource. Something totally unique to them.
It is not only believed to be a commandment from the Creator of all life but a matter of health, both spiritual and physical.
There is much clinical evidence that blood transfusions often cause a great deal of harm and a certain number of fatalities each year. Not from disease, but from complications from the blood itself. The reasons given are varied but it does appear that each persons blood is genetically unique to them. This is why typing a persons blood is so critical and even then, the match is never perfect. if you do some research you find this to not just a religeous fanatics myth, but a scientific truth.
Is it possible that the One who inspired the writing of the Bible, the One who said the Earth was round and hung upon nothing at all, more than a thousand years before Columbus was born, also understands something about the nature of blood and life that most of modern medicine is reluctant to acknowlage?
If you honestly doubt these claims, find a copy of the book written by Dr. Ronald Lapin ” No Man’s Blood “.
Dr. Lapin pioneered many of the bloodless surgery techniques that have become commonly used by doctors all over the world. He believed that blood transfusions were dangerous and unnecessary.
Dr Lapin was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Medicine.