Can someone tell me some info regarding the issue of Jehovah Witnesses not accepting blood transfusions.?

Answer 1

I am going to provide you with a link to the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses. It should answer any questions you have about blood transfusions. just take a few minutes and investigate the site.
http://www.watchtower.org/medical_care_and_blood.htm
Also, if you type in blood transfusions in the search box of the following link you should get a list of around 28 different articles that will explain not only why we choose not to take blood transfusions, but also alternatives...
http://www.watchtower.org/

Answer 2

The reason why they don't accept blood transfusions is because of the old testament animals were used for sacrifice, and blood had to be shed to atone for the sin, so JW's believe that blood is sacred, and also the Bible talks about not ingesting blood, and to a JW receiving a blood transfusion is the same as ingesting it. The reason I know this is because I have an aunt that is a JW and she has been trying to convert me to JW and I have been trying to convert her to Christianity they get this info from:

Acts chapter 15, verse 20, Acts chapter 21, verse 25

Answer 3

There are many more persons that "die" from transfusions, than there are that do not take transfusions. Why take a transfusion, when all major operations can be performed without blood.

My neighbor who is a JW's just had a major heart operation, without blood, and everything went great.

“A growing number of hospitals are offering an alternative: 'bloodless' surgery,” reported THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. “Originally developed to accommodate Jehovah's Witnesses,” stated the journal, “the practice has gone mainstream, with many hospitals promoting their bloodless-surgery programs to the general public.” Hospitals around the word are discovering numerous benefits, particularly to patients, when implementing strategies that curtail the use of blood transfusions. Currently, thousands of doctors are treating patients without resorting to transfusions.

A “Circular of Information” prepared by three U.S. blood agencies states on its first page: “WARNING: Because whole blood and blood components are made from human blood, they may carry a risk of transmitting infectious agents, eg, viruses....Careful donor selection and available laboratory tests do not eliminate the hazard.”

Regarding a Canadian study, the Glove and Mail newspaper reported that thousands of blood transfusions involved near-misses be cause of “collecting blood samples from the wrong patient, mislabelling samples and requesting blood for the wrong patient.”
No wonder Brian McClelland, director Edinburgh and Scotland Blood Transfusion Service, asks doctors to “remember that a transfusion is a transpland and therefore not a trivial decision.” He suggests that doctors ponder the question,”IF THIS WAS MYSELF OR MY CHILD, WOULD I AGREE TO THE TRANSFUSION?”

Many doctors, would agree with medical director Dr. Michael Rose, who says: “Any patient who receives bloodless medicine is, in essence, the recipient of the highest quality surgery that is possible.” The highest quality of medical care--is that not what you would want?

When Jehovah's Witnesses get sick, they demonstrate reasonableness by seeking medical care and accepting the vast majority of available treatment options. True, they obey the Bible command to “keep abstaining from ... blood,” insisting on nonblood medical management . (Acts 15:29) And this choice often results in a higher quality of treatment.

Answer 4

" Acts 15:19-21,28 is the Scripture Jehovah's Witnesses typically point to as the reason they refuse to accept blood donations. Acts 15:20 says, "Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood." It is clear from the context that the instructions were against eating / drinking blood, not blood transfusions. Blood transfusions were not even possible in Bible times, so there is no possibility that this Scripture could be referring to blood transfusions. There were many pagan religious practices that involved eating and drinking blood and/or strangling an animal to keep more of its blood in its meat. This is what the Bible speaks against, not blood transfusions".
taken from: http://www.gotquestions.org/blood-transfusions.html

Answer 5

First I want to apologize if I get too upset in answering this question. Jehovah's Witnesses beleive it is wrong to accept foriegn substances into the body. They have rewritten this quote from the Bible to include even the donated blood of ones own body being accepted back into the body at a time of need. Pesonal experience has shown me that this group of zealots can and often do impose this beleif on family members not of their....and I use the term loosely "FAITH"

Answer 6

There are scriptures saying that blood is sacred to Jehovah, they will not use it for anything. Their beliefs are entirely based on the Bible.

And in response to one of the answers, they are not afraid to go to the doctor. They just limit the use of blood.

Answer 7

They view blood as one of if not the most sacred of God's gifts and do not believe in them, even to the point of saving your own for possible use. They are inflexable on this point.

Answer 8

God say Jhn 15:13, Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Answer 9

They believe it is wrong because of one verse in the bible that is ambiguous....As a health care worker, I have watched people almost die by refusing blood....A normal hematocrit is supposed to be around 40ish and I have seen as low as 8 (ouch).

Answer 10

Internet search