The parents of the sextuplet kids don't want this because their religion forbids eating blood.
2007-02-01 09:40:43 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think to "abstain from blood" is pretty clear! To take it in through your mouth or through your veins is irrelovent, you're still taking it into your body.
If the doctors would stop sucking the babies dry with all the blood they are taking for tests, this wouldn't even be an issue. There is something called Micro-sampling which takes minute amounts of blood to test! They should consider this before they force a this treatment on people.
2007-02-02 03:03:21 · answer #1 · answered by la la la 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course! In a hospital, when a patient cannot eat through his mouth, he is fed intravenously. Now, would a person who never put blood into his mouth but who accepted blood by transfusion really be obeying the command to “keep abstaining from . . . blood”? (Acts 15:29) To use a comparison, consider a man who is told by the doctor that he must abstain from alcohol. Would he be obedient if he quit drinking alcohol but had it put directly into his veins?
2007-02-01 19:06:17 · answer #2 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. If you drink (eat?) blood, you digest it, break it down, and then build it back up into energy and nutrients for your body. A blood transfusion, on the other hand, is a direct -- well -- transfer of blood. No digestion or conversion.
2007-02-01 17:43:43 · answer #3 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's not like you're drinking and ingesting the blood though, it's just entering your veins.
2007-02-01 17:45:18 · answer #4 · answered by lotusmoon01 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
sorry but no, eating blood involves digesting it. takeing it intravaneously is completely different.
this shows that they have a lack of knowledge of how the body works.
2007-02-01 17:43:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋