by journey-on 22 Replies latest watchtower medical
I probably should know this, but I don't. I can't seem to find a definitive answer and hope some of you
medical types on the board could explain it. If the "life is in the blood" as the scriptures say, does that
mean a person's DNA is transferred or intermingled with the one receiving the transfusion?
No, basically because the blood cells aren't out to fuse with another cell and grow something new.
I was going to clumsily try to mash out an explanation, but I found something that is more eloquent than I.
http://www.wisegeek.com/can-getting-a-blood-transfusion-change-my-dna.htm
This is so weird; I was searching for something to bolster my suspicion that the fear of being by contaminated by a Black person's blood was partly behind the WT's stance on blood transfusions.
I read that in South Africa, the blood of Blacks and Coloreds is routinely disposed of by blood banks.
I'm going to keep searching because I believe I'm on to something.
Sylvia
Thanks Lady Zombie. I have now found some more links to investigate. So far, it sounds like DNA is not found in
RBC's (red blood cells), but DNA is found in white blood cells or whole blood, although generally the recipient's DNA
is not affected. Several sites say that DNA is affected by bone marrow and/or liver transplants and this is especially
troublesome in some crime investigations. This is interesting. I'm going to do a little more research on this.
Blood transfusions include both red blood cells (RBC) and white blood cells (WBC). RBCs do not have DNA but white cells do.
This DNA is not a problem as it generates no reaction of any kind and definitevly does not fuse with the host's DNA. This fact is not about to change.
I read that in South Africa, the blood of Blacks and Coloreds is routinely disposed of by blood banks.
The average lifespan of red blood cells is 120 days, after that, all blood is disposed.
This is so weird; I was searching for something to bolster my suspicion that the fear of being by contaminated by a Black person's blood was partly behind the WT's stance on blood transfusions.
I read that in South Africa, the blood of Blacks and Coloreds is routinely disposed of by blood banks.
I'm going to keep searching because I believe I'm on to something.
LOL, you remind me of the All In The Family episode where the hilariously racist Archie Bunker gets the blood transfusion from a black doctor. He is utterly flabbergasted when he finds out. The black doctor says something like: "Welcome to the family." LOL
Archie: (protesting a transfusion from the black, female doctor) You mix my what-you-call white hemoglobens with her black shemoglobens...anything could happen.
Mike: Yeah, there might be a race riot.
Awww jeez!
The average lifespan of red blood cells is 120 days, after that, all blood is disposed.
I meant the blood is never used at all!
Sylvia
Yeah, Burn, I remember that episode.
Something else: I recall hearing that an elderly, ailing White woman once remarked that she would rather have anyone's blood other than a nigger's.
Please excuse my bluntness.
Sylvia
Please excuse my bluntness.
Her hate of other's is playing out within herself.
The old is dying off.
Kids these days know better.
BTS
