It seems like the Witnesses are going to be told that they they now CAN take blood---at least some of it!
I hope someone will be able to post the transcript of this announcement. I would be very interested in seeing it. My opinion for a long time has been that they would like to drop the whole blood issue but aren't sure how they can do it without losing face and members. A lot have died because of it so it would be very difficult for them to just drop the issue. I think what they may have been doing with all the changes are testing the waters to see how witnesses react to any changes. Or maybe they think if they confuse the sheep enough the witness will breath a sigh of relieve when they make it less complicated by doing away with the whole bloody issue (pun intended) Or they could be boiling the frog slowly so the frog has no idea it is being cooked. It seems to be going out of the back door a piece at a time. It would be a much easier step to go from just a few small pieces to no pieces than it would be to get rid of it all at once. They could say something along the lines that it was once necessary but now due to modern medical techniques it is much safer. They could use the example of why the Jews weren't allow to eat pork but now with refigeration and modern processing it has become safe or something along that line.
I know it is hard to believe that they would at some point get rid of it but 20 years ago who would have believed that the blood policy would become what it has today. Back then it was just a simple no blood in any form under any conditions. Look at how they were able to get rid of the 1914 generation with hardly a peep out of the true believers. But who knows? They are just crazy enough to have entire blood policy just about out the door then release a magazine taking a hard nosed stance in favor of keeping it. We have seen them flip flop many times on other issues.
