Jehovah's Witnesses, Blood, Fornicating Animals and Leeches

Most people when they talk of Jehovah's Witnesses and the subject of medicine comes up they usually make this comment "Oh, they are the ones that don't take blood".  While true, most don't see the problems that such a stand has giving this group.

Another problem that the group itself has is explaining this radical stand.

The fact that any member of Jehovah's Witnesses is willing to die for this stand is commendable, but do they have the facts on this radical stand?  One problem with this stand is the seeming contradictions that it placesin the laps of each JW.  For instance JW's can take SOME blood, albumin, immune globulins Factor VIII, Factor IX, and their OWN circulating blood.

They can't take, plasma, red cells, white cells, platelets, or STORED blood.  What isn't told or made known is the fact that the things JW's can take are substances taken from whole blood to become those blood fractions.  Hundreds of liters of blood are used to squeeze out the small fractions of these" can take substances".  The question shows a bit of double talk doesn't it? We don't take blood but we ACTUALLY do.

This brief article will deal with a different side of the blood issue.  But first the scriptures used for the defense.