The Watchtower employs a range of methods to convince members
that blood transfusions are unsafe. This is such an important topic, due to ongoing lives being lost, that it is recommended to
consider the information at Blood Transfusions, and also Jehovah's Witnesses, Blood Transfusion, and the Tort of Misrepresentation by Kerry Louderback-Wood.
One outstanding misquote regards the risk of refusing a transfusion for renal transplantation. Not only is a full stop added, but the quote hides the context that shows a significant increase in death rate
for Jehovah's Witness renal transplant patients with anaemia.

“The overall results suggest that renal transplantation can be
safely and efficaciously applied to most Jehovah’s Witnesses.” How
Can Blood Save Your Life? p.16

The full quote is:
"Jehovah Witnesses had an increased susceptibility to rejection episodes. The
cumulative percentage of
incidence of primary rejectionepisodes was 77 percent at three months in Jehovah’s Witnesses
versus 44 percent at 21 months in the matched control group.
The consequence of early
allograft dysfunction from
rejection was particularly
detrimental to Jehovah’s Witness who developed severe anemia
(hemoglobin (Hgb)* 4.5 per cent)
– two early deaths occurred in the subgroup with this combination. The overall results
suggest that renal
transplantation can be safely and efficaciously applied to most Jehovah Witness patients but
those with anemia who undergo early rejection episodes are a high-risk group relative to other
transplant patients."

Misleading comments are made such as that erythropoietin (EPO)
can help a patient "form
replacement red cells very
quickly”, “three to four times faster than normal.” (How Can Blood Save Your Life? p.15) A
reader quite likely would think "very quickly" means hours or days, yet "EPO can take four or
more weeks to begin to relieve some of the symptoms of anaemia." (myeloma.org.uk Erythropoietin Infosheet Oct 2011 )
The information supplied in How Can Blood Save Your Life? also attempts to create unrealistic
fear of the risks of blood
transfusion. For instance, page 11 quotes from The New York Times July 18 1989 that "A panel
of health officials … [all]
answered no" to accepting blood
from a person who tested
positive for Lyme disease. What is not stated is that there have never been any "cases of Lyme
disease … linked to blood
transfusion …." (http://
www.cdc.gov/lyme/
transmission/ as of 22 Apr 2013).

@op, wats d basis of WT doctrine on blood.

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if the doctor tells you to desist from the use of alcohol...would it be advisable to inject it into your veins............if God asked you to desist from the use of blood(do not eat blood) would he be pleased wen you inject it into your body??.... just because u wanna save ur life u'll later loose......JWs are ever ready to die for thier bible based believes..... if Adolf Hitler could not stop em...you re just building castles in the air...bro......

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if the doctor tells you to desist from the use of alcohol...would it be advisable to inject it into your veins............if God asked you to desist from the use of blood(do not eat blood)

drinking blood and blood transfusion are they the same?
Provide the scriptures you want to use to support the above, i want to show you something.

would he be pleased wen you inject it into your body??.... just because u wanna save ur life u'll later loose......JWs are ever ready to die for thier bible based believes.....

clap for yaself!!

if Adolf Hitler could not stop em...you re just building castles in the air...bro......

what is it with you and ellipses?