Thanks for posting that Barb. It's disappointing, but I'm sure eventually the technology will arise to make artificial blood that will save lives.
I just thought of something: The GB always use the scripture in Acts 15:28, 29 as their stand on blood. It says there that Christians were to abstain from "things strangled, from blood, from fornication and from things sacrificed to idols." Isn't there another scripture somewhere that mentions that eating the foods offered to pagan idols and then sold in the market place was frowned upon, but a matter of conscience?