If this topic has been addressed already...sorry...just ignore it...
if not...I would like to hear from those who would defend this policy....or who see the inconsistencies in the views on blood but the WTBTS.
The following is something I read on at another site.
There is no question that the Watchtower's blood policy needlessly kills JW children. Something as simple as a transfusion of platelets is denied to JW children with the following results:
1. JW children with cancer end up having to stop their chemotherapy. Result - they die
2. JW children with leukemeia simply bleed to death. In the last fifty years childhood leukemia has gone from being 100% fatal to having a cure rate of over 75%. Truly a modern day miracle. Not in the JW community, however, were the death rate remains near 100%! Why does the WTS insist that critcally needed medical care be denied to these children?
Consider this: Platelets are among the very smallest components of blood weighing in at only 0.17% of blood volume.
Here's an illustration. Take a dollar as a whole, now take 1% of a dollar, now get out a saw and cut that penny into 5 pieces. One of those pieces is to a dollar as platelets are to blood! Consider the shocking hypocrisy and murderous implications of this policy. The Watchtower is perfectly willing to permit all of the following:
all components of plasma - 55% of blood volume hemoglobin - 13.5% of blood volume
The WTS will permit and yes sanction the collection and storage of cow blood and the extraction of major blood protein(hemoglobin), but these children
are refused a tiny component of human blood that can save their lives. Bear in mind the Mosaic law clearly calls for the pouring out of a slaughtered animal's blood on the ground.
JW children have no voice and no choice. The WTS, the local elders and their parents indoctrinate them and lead them to the grave. Denying them their most elementary human rights.
This is terribly wrong and it must stop. It must stop now. Not ten years from now, not five years from now, not even a year from now. We must insist that it stop now – right now. This is not the first time those claiming to serve Jehovah God have felt compelled to offer up their children as a sacrifice. Israelites who also served Molech were no doubt deeply touched when called upon to make their sacrifice. How did God view such child sacrifice? The Bible tells us:
And they have built the high places of To'pheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hin'nom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the
fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart. (Jeremiah 7:31)
Anyone who questions whether or not this really is happening in the Jehovah's Witness community need only check the May 22, 1994 Awake magazine where these children are hailed as martyrs and where the WTS implies that the death toll has reached into the thousands.
Pax,
joel