Jehovah's Witnesses & The Rh Factor

There is a Christian principle involved here. What gives Jehovah’s Witnesses the right to dip into the nation’s blood supply when they themselves don’t donate any? How do they justify this? Over the years I have heard such harangues against blood banks from them; these are looked upon as places of absolute evil where the sanctity of blood is profaned. But if it weren’t for these very same blood banks, where would they get their albumin, fibrinogen, Factor VIII, Factor IX, and Rhogam? Where would all these blood products be processed from non-JW donors and stored so that JWs might have access to them?

Since the most prevalent protein in plasma, albumin, is acceptable for them to take, but plasma itself is not, who would spin the albumin out of the plasma for them if they are burn victims or have a liver disease?

Let me point out that the last JW patient I had who was taking blood was getting 250cc of albumin. It takes 10 liters of plasma to get that much albumin! If the albumin came from whole blood donations, which it most likely did, we are talking about 19 liters of whole blood. Since one donor gives about one pint, this means that 38-40 people donated their blood so that she could have that albumin. Her chart was marked “No Blood Products.” I added the words, “except albumin.”